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Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Prologue: There and Here -- Part I: Dispatches from The First America -- Chapter 1: Heaven and Hell -- Chapter 2: Key to the Indies -- Chapter 3: Copper Virgin -- Part II: A Colony Worth a Kingdom -- Chapter 4: Havana for Florida -- Chapter 5: Most Favored Nation -- Chapter 6: Sugar's Revolution -- Part III: An Empire for Slavery -- Chapter 7: Adams's Apple -- Chapter 8: Torture Plots -- Chapter 9: Dreams of Dominion -- Chapter 10: Civil War Journeys -- Part IV: ¡Cuba Libre! -- Chapter 11: Slave, Soldier, Citizen -- Chapter 12: A Revolution for the World -- Part V: American Interregnum -- Chapter 13: A War Renamed -- Chapter 14: Island Occupied -- Part VI: Strange Republic -- Chapter 15: Empire of Sugar -- Chapter 16: City of Dreams -- Chapter 17: Fratricide -- Chapter 18: Boom, Crash, Awake -- Part VII: Republic, Take Two -- Chapter 19: Authentic Masses -- Chapter 20: New Charter -- Chapter 21: Suitcases -- Part VIII: Origin Stories -- Chapter 22: Centennial Spirit -- Chapter 23: Insurrectionary Line -- Chapter 24: The Mountains Rise -- Part IX: The Revolution Begins Now! -- Chapter 25: First Time -- Chapter 26: Radical Nonstop -- Part X: Confrontation -- Chapter 27: Battle -- Chapter 28: Brink -- Part XI: Hearts and Minds -- Chapter 29: New People? -- Chapter 30: New Americans? -- Chapter 31: Other Cubas? -- Part XII: Departures -- Chapter 32: Special Years -- Chapter 33: Open and Shut -- Epilogue: If Monuments Could Speak -- Photographs -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Notes -- Index -- Image Credits -- Copyright.

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