Revolution And Intervention In Grenada

Author : Kai Schoenhals,Richard Melanson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000310009

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Revolution And Intervention In Grenada by Kai Schoenhals,Richard Melanson Pdf

In Part 1 of this book, Dr. Schoenhals places the Grenadian Revolution and its aftermath in historical perspective. He explores the Anglo-French rivalry over the island, the period of slavery, and the British colonial administration and gives particular emphasis to the Gairy decades (1951-1979). His discussion of the People's Revolutionary Government is based on extensive Interviews with the leadership of the New Jewel Movement, foreign diplomats, and Grenadian citizens, and on a review of documents captured by the United States during occupation of the island. In Part 2, Dr. Melanson, after briefly reviewing the nature of U.S. interests In the region and U.S.-Caribbean relations during the Nixon years, focuses on the Carter and Reagan administrations' policies in the Caribbean and relations with the Grenadian government. He examines the justification offered by President Reagan for the 1983 intervention, domestic responses to the action in the United States, and its implications for Reagan's Central American policies. Finally, he considers whether the action will prove to be a prelude to a new domestic consensus about the use of U.S. military power in the Third World.

Author : Anthony Payne,Paul Sutton,Tony Thorndike
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000534788

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Grenada by Anthony Payne,Paul Sutton,Tony Thorndike Pdf

This book, first published in 1984, analyses the background to the revolution in Grenada and details the course of its progress, examining the reasons why it faltered and failed. International factors played no small part in these events, setting the agenda for the internal processes of the revolution and bringing it to an end. The book also examines closely the US-led invasion of this tiny island and its aftermath.

Author : S. Puri
Publisher : Springer
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137066909

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The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present by S. Puri Pdf

The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory is the first scholarly book from the humanities on the subject of the Grenada Revolution and the US intervention. It is simultaneously a critique, tribute, and memorial. It argues that in both its making and its fall, the 1979-1983 Revolution was a transnational event that deeply impacted politics and culture across the Caribbean and its diaspora during its life and in the decades since its fall. Drawing together studies of landscape, memorials, literature, music, painting, photographs, film and TV, cartoons, memorabilia traded on e-bay, interviews, everyday life, and government, journalistic, and scholarly accounts, the book assembles and analyzes an archive of divergent memories. In an analysis that is relevant to all micro-states, the book reflects on how Grenada's small size shapes memory, political and poetic practice, and efforts at reconciliation.

Author : John Angus Martin,Nicole Phillip-Dowe
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443893398

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Perspectives on the Grenada Revolution, 1979-1983 by John Angus Martin,Nicole Phillip-Dowe Pdf

The 1979 Grenada Revolution, orchestrated by the New Jewel Movement, culminated four-and-a-half years later in the execution of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and the US-led military invasion which threw Grenada onto the international political stage. Though much has been written on the Revolution and its untimely and violent demise, the overwhelming majority of the authors have been non-Grenadian. All the contributors to this volume, except one, are Grenadian. In this regard, it is unique, and captures the voices of persons who were active participants, children, teenagers, young adults, and some yet unborn in the 1979 to 1983 period, illustrative of the continued influence of the Revolution on Grenadians. The essays examine the legality of the Revolution, the historical connections between it and the 1795 Fédon’s Rebellion, the nation’s collective memory of the Revolution by its second generation, the conflict between religion and the Revolution, the empowerment of women by the revolutionary process, and the role of poetry and art in raising salient and often difficult and painful aspects of the Revolution. This collection of essays captures the Revolution from a Grenadian perspective.

Author : S. Puri
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1349298549

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The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present by S. Puri Pdf

Studying cultural memory of the Grenada Revolution as it surfaces in literature, music, the visual arts, law, landscape, and everyday life, this book approaches the 1979-1983 Grenada Revolution as a pan-Caribbean event. Puri reveals the deep consequences for Caribbean politics and culture even today.

Author : G. Williams
Publisher : Springer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230609952

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US-Grenada Relations by G. Williams Pdf

Why did the world's strongest power intervene militarily in the tiny Commonwealth Caribbean island of Grenada in October 1983? This book focuses on United States-Grenada relations between 1979 and 1983 set against the wider historical context of US-Caribbean Basin relations. It presents an in-depth study of US policy during the Carter and Reagan presidencies and the deterioration of relations with the Marxist-Leninist People's Revolution Government (PRG) of Grenada. It considers in detail the murderous internal power struggle that destroyed the PRG and the decisionmaking process that resulted in a joint US-Caribbean military intervention.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0785512322

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Grenada by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bernard Coard
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-29
Category : Grenada
ISBN : 1542657520

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The Grenada Revolution by Bernard Coard Pdf

"A PAGE-TURNING WHO-DONE-IT. A MUST READ!" (Horace Levy, Sociologist, University Lecturer, Civil Society activist and Journalist, Jamaica) Finally, the inside story: honest, self-critical, and based on a wealth of credible and independent documentation. Bernard Coard reveals in dramatic detail the factors, forces and personalities which cumulatively led to deepening crisis within the Grenada Revolution and ultimately to wholesale tragedy. Bernard Coard, United States and British trained economist and university lecturer, played a leading role in the NJM and in the People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada. His experience, including 26 years as a political prisoner, offers a unique insight into the causes, course, and finally the implosion of the Revolution.

Author : Geoffrey Wagner
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 089526773X

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Red Calypso by Geoffrey Wagner Pdf

Red Calypso tells the story of Grenada's fall to Marxist tyranny and the United States' rescue of the island from a violent and fanatical government. When Maurice Bishop took over the government of Grenada establishing a one-party state on Leninist principles, he did not know that he would one day fall victim to his own machinery. The terror, corruption, and absurdity of Bishop's regime have never been described so vividly as in this eye-witness account which analyses the brief experiment in Grenadian communism and the American invasion which ended it.

Author : Wendy C. Grenade
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781626743458

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The Grenada Revolution by Wendy C. Grenade Pdf

Grenada experienced much turmoil in the 1970s and 1980s, culminating in an armed Marxist revolution, a bloody military coup, and finally in 1983 Operation Urgent Fury, a United States–led invasion. Wendy C. Grenade combines various perspectives to tell a Caribbean story about this revolution, weaving together historical accounts of slain Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, the New Jewel Leftist Movement, and contemporary analysis. There is much controversy. Though the Organization of American States formally requested intervention from President Ronald Reagan, world media coverage was largely negative and skeptical, if not baffled, by the action, which resulted in a rapid defeat and the deposition of the Revolutionary Military Council. By examining the possibilities and contradictions of the Grenada Revolution, the contributors draw upon thirty years’ of hindsight to illuminate a crucial period of the Cold War. Beyond geopolitics, the book interrogates but transcends the nuances and peculiarities of Grenada’s political history to situate this revolution in its larger Caribbean and global context. In doing so, contributors seek to unsettle old debates while providing fresh understandings about a critical period in the Caribbean’s postcolonial experience. This collection throws into sharp focus the centrality of the Grenada Revolution, offering a timely contribution to Caribbean scholarship and to wider understanding of politics in small developing, postcolonial societies.

Author : Gregory W. Sandford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Government publications
ISBN : MINN:20000004437519

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The New Jewel Movement by Gregory W. Sandford Pdf

Author : EPICA Task Force
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018407680

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Grenada, the Peaceful Revolution by EPICA Task Force Pdf

Author : Peter M Dunn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429716638

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American Intervention In Grenada by Peter M Dunn Pdf

Why did the United States invade the sovereign state of Grenada in October 1983, risking world condemnation and the possible escalation of violence outside the borders of the tiny Caribbean island? According to the contributors to this book, the invasion-code-named "Urgent Fury"--was a product of the increasing concern with political instability in

Author : William C. Gilmore
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015008486600

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The Grenada Intervention by William C. Gilmore Pdf

Author : Joseph Ewart Layne
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1492724580

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We Move Tonight by Joseph Ewart Layne Pdf

On March 13th 1979, West Indians were stunned as they awoke to the news of the first successful revolution in the English Speaking Caribbean. Four and a half years later the revolution succumbed to tragedy and US military invasion. This extraordinary book is the first to give the inside story of the thinking, the internal debates, concrete plans and actions of the Grenadian revolutionary leaders as they both responded to events unfolding in the 1970's and sought to shape them. The different and distinct personalities of the political and military leaders of the revolution come to life, as the author, from his personal knowledge as a young patriot himself, narrates the events of the period and the roles of the various leaders in them. Students of Grenadian and Caribbean history, politics and sociology will find this not only a fascinating and thoroughly enjoyable read, but an indispensable reference work. Anyone, moreover, who wishes to understand the seeds of both the remarkable achievements of the Grenada Revolution and of its implosion, will also need to study this book carefully. Written in a direct, simple, engaging and at times poetic style, the ordinary citizen of Grenada, the Caribbean region, and the West Indian Diaspora will find it impossible to put this book down once the first page is read.