Cuba
A History
$65.92
- Paperback
1184 pages
- Release Date
10 January 2011
Summary
‘A brilliant history’ - The New York Times
First published in 1971, Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom is still the most important and authoritative book on this complex and often geopolitically significant country, marrying Hugh Thomas’s unique skills as arguably the world’s leading historian of Spanish-speaking peoples with an intricate and absorbing subject.
This book explores the whole sweep of Cuban history, from the British capture of Havana in 1762 through t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141034508 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141034505 |
| Author: | Hugh Thomas |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 1184 |
| Release Date: | 10 January 2011 |
| Weight: | 830g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 131mm x 53mm |
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About The Author
Hugh Thomas
Hugh Thomas is the author of, among other books, The Spanish Civil War (1962), which won the Somerset Maugham Award, Cuba- The Pursuit of Freedom (1971), An Unfinished History of the World (1979), and the first volume of his Spanish Empire trilogy, Rivers of Gold (2003). In 2008 he was made a Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres in France and in 2009 received the Calvo Serer Prize in Spain and the Bonino Prize in Italy. He was director of the Centre for Policy Studies in London from 1979 to 1991, and he became a life peer as Baron Thomas of Swynnerton in 1981.
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