La formación de las regiones históricas en Cuba (una propuesta de periodización)

Abstract

Proposal of formation of the Cuban historical regions. Here are included six periods: the first, about the initial shaping of regions until the first half of the XVI century: the second, of early consolidation and arising of new subdivisions from the second XVI century halfto the beginnings of the XVIII; the third. of regional development and "plantacionist" climax, from the XVIII to the XIX; the fourth, of the regional base consolidation sugar-bowl, from the end of the XIX until the first decades of the XX; an "intermezzo" between 1940s and 1950 where is produced a frustrated regional revitalización: and a fifth period, of balance search in the Cuban regional development, that began with the victory of the Castroist revolution in 1959.