319 Ada Ferrer, Cuba: An Early American History
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Airwave Media
Media Type |
audio
Podknife tags |
History
Interview
Society & Culture
USA
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Publication Date |
Jan 04, 2022
Episode Duration |
01:06:49

One of the Caribbean islands that Christopher Columbus stopped at during his 1492-voyage was an alligator-shaped island that sits at the mouth of the Gulf of Mexico in between the Yucatán and Florida peninsulas. This is, of course, is the island of Cuba.

What do we know about early Cuba, the island the Spanish described as the “Key to the Indies?” What kind of relationship and exchange did early Cuba have with British North America and the early United States?

ferrer.html">Ada Ferrer, a Professor of History at New York University and author of Cuba: An American History, joins us to investigate the early history of Cuba.

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