Cuba and the United States

A chronological history

Jane Franklin

This chronological history is an invaluable resource for scholars, teachers, journalists, legislators, and anyone interested in international relations, offering an unprecedented vision of US-Cuba relations.

Based on exceptionally wide research, US historian Jane Franklin relates day by day, year by year, the developments involving the two neighboring countries from the 1959 Cuban revolution through 1995. An introductory section chronicles the history of Cuba from the time of the arrival of Christopher Columbus.

This title is now out of print, but due to its immense historical value it is available for download at no charge below.

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Whether one reads this as a history, or keeps it handy as a ready reference, this is a book that no serious student of US-Cuba relations can afford to be without.

—Philip Brenner, American University

A marvelous work that puts the US government's outrageous aggression into stark and stunning contrast.

—John Marciano, State University of New York

This chronology provides scholars with an essential and long overdue research tool.

—Louis A. Pérez, Jr., University of North Carolina

416 pages | ISBN 978-1-875284-92-4