title: Cuba: A Short History (Cambridge History of Latin America)
author:  Leslie Bethell 
description: "Cuba: A Short History, edited by Leslie Bethell, is the best brief history of Cuba available. It is recommended for undergraduate classes and for readers with an interest in a nation that has had a tremendous diplomatic and cultural impact on the United States....As a general introduction, this book is commendable." Thomas Zoumaras, History
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  The use of Spanish accents in this text varies and has not been altered (ie.
  both Senor and Señor [tilde n], Senora and Señora [tilde n], José [acute
  accented letter e] and Jose appear; both Nunez and Nuñez [tilde n], Marti and
  Martí [acute accented i], Carreno and Carreño appear [tilde n].)
  
  Several typographical errors have been corrected (Almandares=>Almendares,
  Donate=>Donato, etc.).  
    
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  #  THE  
  HISTORY OF CUBA
  
  **BY  
  WILLIS FLETCHER JOHNSON  
  A.M., L.H.D.  
  Author of "A Century of Expansion," "Four Centuries of  
  the Panama Canal," "America's Foreign Relations"  
  Honorary Professor of the History of American Foreign  
  Relations in New York University  
  VOLUME FOUR **
  
  ** NEW YORK  
  B. F. BUCK & COMPANY, INC.  
  156 FIFTH AVENUE  
  1920 **
  
  ** Copyright, 1920,  
  BY CENTURY HISTORY CO.  
  _All rights reserved_ **
  
  ** ENTERED AT STATIONERS HALL  
  LONDON, ENGLAND. **
  
  ** 