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Cuba: An American History is a historical book by Ada Ferrer which was published in 2021. Awards. Pulitzer Prize for History in 2022; Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History in 2022; Finalist for the Cundill History Prize in 2022; Critical reception and reviews
v. t. e. The Republic of Cuba, covering the historical period in Cuban history between 1902 and 1959, was an island country comprised the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud (since 1925) and several minor archipelagos. It was located where the northern Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Atlantic Ocean meet.
Ada Ferrer. Ada Ferrer is a Cuban-American historian. She is Julius Silver Professor of History and Latin American Studies at New York University, and will join the faculty at Princeton University as the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History in July of 2024. [1] She was awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in History for her book Cuba: An American ...
The island of Cuba was inhabited by various [ [Indigenous peoples of the Americas [Native American]] cultures prior to the arrival of the explorer Christopher Columbus in 1492. After his arrival, Spain conquered Cuba and appointed Spanish governors to rule in Havana. The administrators in Cuba were subject to the Viceroy of New Spain and the ...
e. Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar[ a][ b] (born Rubén Zaldívar; [ 2] January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was a Cuban military officer and politician who served as the elected president of Cuba from 1940 to 1944 and as a military dictator from 1952 until his overthrow in the Cuban Revolution in 1959. Batista initially rose to power as part of ...
The Cuban Revolution ( Spanish: Revolución cubana) was the military and political effort to overthrow Fulgencio Batista 's dictatorship which reigned as the government of Cuba between 1952 and 1959. It began after the 1952 Cuban coup d'état which saw former president and military general, Fulgencio Batista topple the nascent Cuban democracy ...
Cuba is located east of the Yucatán Peninsula (Mexico), south of both Florida and the Bahamas, west of Hispaniola (Haiti/Dominican Republic), and north of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Havana is the largest city and capital. Cuba is the third-most populous country in the Caribbean after Haiti and the Dominican Republic, with about 10 million ...
He also did the English Translation for Luise Grave de Peralta Morel’s The Mafia of Havana: The Cuban Cosa Nostra (2002). Luis Senarens. 1865–1939. The most popular American science fiction writer of the late 19th century, widely known as "the American Jules Verne." Alex Abella. 1950–. Mystery/crime novelist, non-fiction writer, and ...