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      SERGIO GUERRA VILABOY holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Leipzig. He is head of the History Department at the University of Havana and is executive secretary of the Association of Latin America and Caribbean Historians. He is also on the editorial boards of several magazines, including Tzintzun and Ulúa (Mexico), Investigación y Desarrollo (Colombia), Kó-Eyú Latinoamericano (Venezuela) and Contexto Latinoamericano (published by Ocean Sur); he has given talks at a number of universities; and has written several books, including Paraguay: de la independencia a la dominación imperialista (1991), Los artesanos en la revolución latinoamericana (2000), El dilema de la independencia (2000), Cinco siglos de historiografía latinoamericana (2003), Historia de la Revolución Cubana (2005), Breve historia de América Latina (2006) and Ernesto Che Guevara (2007).

      OSCAR LOYOLA VEGA holds a Ph.D. in history and was deputy dean of the School of Philosophy and History at the University of Havana between 1993 and 1997 and presided over its Doctoral Commission. He has given talks at universities in a number of countries and co-authored several books, including La Guerra de los Diez Años (1989), Cuba y su historia (1999) and Historia de Cuba 1492-1898. Formación y liberación de la nación (2001).

      Cover design by Runa Kamijo

      Copyright © 2010 Sergio Guerra Vilaboy and Oscar Loyola Vega

      Copyright © 2010 Ocean Press

      Translated by Mary Todd

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      ISBN 978-0-9872283-4-5 (e-book)

      Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 2010920611

      First edition 2010

      Second printing 2012

      Third printing 2013

      Fourth printing 2014

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      Contents

1. From the Original Inhabitants to Slave Plantations

The Cuban Archipelago and the Indigenous Population

Conquest and Colonization

The Criollo Economy and Society

Emergence and Evolution of the Plantation System

Reform, Annexation and Slavery

2. The Wars of Independence

The Ten Years’ War (1868-78)

       The Period Between the Wars

       The War of 1895

       3. Republic and Sovereignty

       The First Period of US Intervention

       From Tomás Estrada Palma to Gerardo Machado

       An Absolutely Necessary Decade

       4. Prelude to and Beginning of the Revolution

       The Struggle over the Constitution

       The Authentic Party in Power

       The Batista Dictatorship and the Insurrectional Struggle

       5. The Revolutionary Government

       The Transition to Socialism

       Creating a Socialist State

       The Search for a Cuban Model of Socialism

       6. From Institutionalization to the Special Period

       The Institutionalization of the Revolution

       Rectification

       The Special Period

       The Battle of Ideas

       Bibliography

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       From the Original Inhabitants to Slave Plantations