Cuba is often perceived in starkly black and white terms either as the site of one of Latin America s most successful revolutions or as the bastion of the world s last communist regime. "The Cuba Reader" multiplies perspectives on the nation many times over, presenting more than one hundred selections about Cuba s history, culture, and politics. Beginning with the first written account of the island, penned by Christopher Columbus in 1492, the selections assembled here track Cuban history from the colonial period through the ascendancy of Fidel Castro to the present.

"The Cuba Reader"...