Download or read book The Grenada revolution at work written by W. Richard Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Grenada Revolution written by Wendy C. Grenade and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Big Revolution Small Country written by Jay R. Mandle and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Skyred written by Bernard Coard and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-13 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an extraordinary work which covers both the author's life and the political history of the tiny island of Grenada in the Eastern Caribbean, from the 1951 uprising to the March 13, 1979 triumph of the Grenada Revolution. Starting at the age of six-and-a-half, the author witnesses a number of life-forming events, beginning with Grenada's violent revolutionary upheaval in 1951. This book brings to life the battles between Grenada's agricultural workers and very small farmers on one side, and the planter class and British colonial authorities on the other. The author describes, from personal observation as a young child, the many mass demonstrations and candle light processions of the workers while on general strike; each event unfolding in the tense atmosphere of the presence of hundreds of heavily armed British troops, and police from neighbouring islands brought in by the colonial authorities. The declared decision of the mass-uprising's leader to walk on sea water to attend a huge mass meeting on Grenada's Carenage at the height of the uprising is graphically described, as are the reactions of his supporters and detractors. This book also traces the evolution of the close personal and political friendship, begun at age 12, between Maurice Bishop (Grenada's Prime Minister 1979-'83) and the author, Bernard Coard (Grenada's Deputy Prime Minister during that same period). Their friendship deepens during their university years in the USA and Britain in the 1960s. Their experience of racism, exposure to the US civil rights struggles, the Vietnam War protests, the emergence of "Black Power," and the African decolonization struggle, help shape their ideological outlook, and the methods of political struggle that they and the other future leaders of Grenada would employ on returning to Grenada.Skyred describes the excitement, difficulties, and danger as the newly returned political leaders challenge the brutality and corruption set in motion by the very one who had led the 1951 workers' uprising. Maurice and Bernard's partnership of two decades would be a decisive element in the 1979 armed, mass-participatory overthrow of the Eric Gairy regime, and the establishment of the People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada.The day of the overthrow of the Eric Gairy government, March 13, 1979, is captured in vivid detail, as are the seeds of the political mistakes which would, less than five years later, lead to tragedy and disaster on an unprecedented scale.
Download or read book The Grenada Revolution at Work written by W. Richard Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Perspectives on the Grenada Revolution 1979 1983 written by John Angus Martin and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book In Nobody s Backyard written by Tony Martin and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume I contains an introduction along with documents on the outlook of the New Jewel Movement and on the health, education, culture, labor, development and religious policies of the government of Maurice Bishop. Volume II turns to the foreign policy of the New Jewel Movement.
Download or read book Grenada written by Anthony Payne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-06 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Grenada written by James Ferguson and published by Latin America Bureau. This book was released on 1990 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The US invasion of Grenada in 1983 was seen as a victory for freedom. By the early 1990s, however, the story of post-invasion Grenada had become one of disillusionment and cynicism. This work reveals the extent of the US failure, economic and political, and its impact on the island's people.
Download or read book The United States and the Grenada Revolution written by Robert A. Pastor and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Revolution And Intervention In Grenada written by Kai Schoenhals and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present written by S. Puri and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The New Jewel Movement written by Gregory W. Sandford and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean written by Sam Manuel and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two black Americans who visited Grenada in 1980 report on their findings.
Download or read book Grenada written by Hugh O'Shaughnessy and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gorri n Tree written by John Walton Cotman and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuba's alliance with the Grenada Revolution of 1979-1983, led by Maurice Bishop, is the centerpiece of this pioneering and provocative analysis of Cuban internationalism. Based on thousands of pages of confidential Cuban and Grenadian government documents and eleven months of field work in Grenada, the work provides the first in-depth look at the lives of Havana's overseas aid workers. It details the social, economic and political impacts of Cuban civilian and military aid programs upon Grenada. New light is shed on Cuba's role in the October 1983 collapse of the Bishop regime and subsequent United States invasion of the Spice Isle.
Download or read book Forward Ever written by Maurice Bishop and published by Resistance Books. This book was released on 1982 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
