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Grenada : revolution and invasion / edited by Patsy Lewis, Gary Williams, Peter Clegg. PRINT

Contributor(s): Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2015�2015Description: ix, 268 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9766405557
  • 9789766405557
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 972.9845 Ja Gre 23
Contents:
Introduction: Grenada: revolution and invasion in perspective / Patsy Lewis, Gary Williams and Peter Clegg -- What happened? Grenada: a retrospective journey / Merle Collins -- Women in the Grenada Revolution, 1979-1983 / Nicole Phillip-Dowe -- The revolution and its discontents: Grenadian newspapers and attempts to shape public opinion during political transition / Laurie R. Lambert -- Ferrets in the Caribbean: Britain, Grenada and the curious case of the armoured cars / Gary Williams -- The "Grenada diaries" / Richard Hart -- A response to Edward Seaga's The Grenada Intervention: The Inside Story / Patsy Lewis -- The Grenada invasion, international law and the scoon invitation: a thirty year retrospective / Robert J. Beck -- Journalism and the invasion of Grenada thirty years on: a retrospective / Howard Tumber -- The United States in the Caribbean: thirty years after American fury / Sir Shridath Ramphal -- Written into amnesia? The truth and reconciliation commission to Grenada / Jermaine O. McCalpin -- Party politics and governance in Grenada: an analysis of the New National Party (1984-2012) / Wendy C. Grenade -- Coming in from the cold: Grenada and Cuba since 1983 / John Walton Cotman.
Summary: "Grenada: Revolution and Invasion, edited by Patsy Lewis, Gary Williams and Peter Clegg, was recently published by the University of the West Indies Press. This volume presents a wide-ranging collection of essays by academics in the Caribbean, the United Kingdom and the United States, each with a unique perspective on the revolution and its effects. The editors of this book succinctly capture the Grenada events of 1979-1983, especially the revolution's tragic demise, which brought the country to the world stage." -- From publisher's description
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-266).

Introduction: Grenada: revolution and invasion in perspective / Patsy Lewis, Gary Williams and Peter Clegg -- What happened? Grenada: a retrospective journey / Merle Collins -- Women in the Grenada Revolution, 1979-1983 / Nicole Phillip-Dowe -- The revolution and its discontents: Grenadian newspapers and attempts to shape public opinion during political transition / Laurie R. Lambert -- Ferrets in the Caribbean: Britain, Grenada and the curious case of the armoured cars / Gary Williams -- The "Grenada diaries" / Richard Hart -- A response to Edward Seaga's The Grenada Intervention: The Inside Story / Patsy Lewis -- The Grenada invasion, international law and the scoon invitation: a thirty year retrospective / Robert J. Beck -- Journalism and the invasion of Grenada thirty years on: a retrospective / Howard Tumber -- The United States in the Caribbean: thirty years after American fury / Sir Shridath Ramphal -- Written into amnesia? The truth and reconciliation commission to Grenada / Jermaine O. McCalpin -- Party politics and governance in Grenada: an analysis of the New National Party (1984-2012) / Wendy C. Grenade -- Coming in from the cold: Grenada and Cuba since 1983 / John Walton Cotman.

"Grenada: Revolution and Invasion, edited by Patsy Lewis, Gary Williams and Peter Clegg, was recently published by the University of the West Indies Press. This volume presents a wide-ranging collection of essays by academics in the Caribbean, the United Kingdom and the United States, each with a unique perspective on the revolution and its effects. The editors of this book succinctly capture the Grenada events of 1979-1983, especially the revolution's tragic demise, which brought the country to the world stage." -- From publisher's description

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