{"product_id":"cuba-a-history","title":"Cuba A History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom award-winning historian Hugh Thomas, \u003ci\u003eCuba: A History\u003c\/i\u003e is the essential work for understanding one of the most fascinating and controversial countries in the world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Hugh Thomas''s acclaimed book explores the whole sweep of Cuban history from the British capture of Havana in 1762 through the years of Spanish and United States domination, down to the twentieth century and the extraordinary revolution of Fidel Castro. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Throughout this period of over two hundred years, Hugh Thomas analyses the political, economic and social events that have shaped Cuban history with extraordinary insight and panache, covering subjects ranging from sugar, tobacco and education to slavery, war and occupation. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Encyclopaedic in range and breathtaking in execution, \u003ci\u003eCuba\u003c\/i\u003e is surely one of the seminal works of world history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ''An astonishing feat ... the author does more to explain the phenomenon of Fidel''s rise to power than anybody else has done so far'' \u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ''Brilliant''\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ''Immensely readable. Thomas''s notion of history''s scope is generous, for he has not limited himself to telling old political and military events; he describes Cuban culture at all stages ... not merely accessible but absorbing. His language is witty but never mocking, crisp but never harsh'' \u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ''Thomas seems to have talked to everybody not dead or in jail, and read everything. He is scrupulously fair'' \u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eHugh Thomas\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of, among other books, \u003ci\u003eThe Spanish Civil War\u003c\/i\u003e (1962), which won the Somerset Maugham Award, \u003ci\u003eCuba: The Pursuit of Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e (1971), \u003ci\u003eAn Unfinished History of the World\u003c\/i\u003e (1979), and the first two volumes of his Spanish Empire trilogy, \u003ci\u003eRivers of Gold\u003c\/i\u003e (2003) and \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Age \u003c\/i\u003e(2010).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57305361514878,"sku":"NW9780141034508","price":15.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780141034508.jpg?v=1778234913","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/cuba-a-history","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}