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The average rating for History of Cuba and Its Relations with the United States: 1492-1845, from the Conquest of Cu... based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.
Review # 1 was written on 2013-07-14 00:00:00 Denise DeboerWow! A well researched and well written volume. The book is an easy read and Foner did a good job of avoiding the academic style that would otherwise make such a subject a bore to read. Out of necessity he discusses figures and covers a lot of material, but he doesn't embellish his work with unnecessary commentary or resort to the use of academic language meant to impress fellow scholars rather than be accessible to the average working person. Some of the information was new to me despite having read extensively on the subject before, and I certainly learned a lot about things I thought I already knew. I particularly enjoyed reading about the working class nature of the American Revolution, the radicalism of the masses at the time, and their role in pushing the revolution into a more progressive struggle than it would have been otherwise (as well as the disgust of the upper classes and economic elites at losing control of the revolution and the development of its democratic advances). I'm looking forward to reading the other volumes. |
Review # 2 was written on 2011-08-07 00:00:00 Alan CoePart one of a ten part project by Philip Foner. This book serves as a corrective to Coffee's history of labor in America and tells another narrative about working people. Foner was of course a famous Marxist professor, though as far as I could tell it did not color his work in a way that makes it untrustworthy. The primary complaint I have is that Foner's prose is pedestrian (I almost said "workman-like" but it's too bad of a pun). The book is full of facts and figures, but it has a droning academic quality that is off-putting. Foner's work is nonetheless required for those that are interested in the history of the labor movement |
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