Grenada: Revolution and Invasion

by Patsy Lewis (Editor), Gary Williams (Editor), Peter Clegg (Editor)

Overview

Grenada: Revolution and Invasion is 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789766405557
Publisher:	The University of the West Indies Press
Publication date:	10/31/2015
Pages:	278
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

PATSY LEWIS is Professor, Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Her publications include Surviving Small Size: Regional Integration in Caribbean Ministates and Social Policies in Grenada.

GARY WILLIAMS is Research Development Manager, University of Essex, United Kingdom. His publications include US–Grenada Relations: Revolution and Intervention in the Backyard.

PETER CLEGG is Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of the West of England, United Kingdom. His publications include Governance in the Non-independent Caribbean: Challenges and Opportunities in the Twenty-First Century (with E. Pantojas-Garcìa).

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“The Grenada events of 1979–1983, especially the revolution’s tragic demise, brought the country to the world stage. Since then, Grenada has retreated to its place as a small state, with little significance in shaping the global political and economic landscape within which small states operate. Nevertheless, powerful resonances remain, in the island, regionally and internationally. This volume seeks both to remind us of the tumultuous past, drawing lessons for the present generation, and to begin to suggest possible political approaches for the near, if inevitably uncertain, future.”
—From the editors’ introduction

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: Grenada: Revolution and Invasion in Perspective
PATSY LEWIS, GARY WILLIAMS AND PETER CLEGG

PART 1. REVOLUTION

What Happened? Grenada: A Retrospective Journey
MERLE COLLINS
Women in the Grenada Revolution, 1979–1983K
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

PART 2. INVASION

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

PART 3. GRENADA REDUX

Written into Amnesia? The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of 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
Selected Bibliography
Contributors

Editorial Reviews

The work [includes] a number of well-researched articles about key issues related to the revolutionary period and its aftermath. These include argued discussions on the role of women and the press, the legitimacy of the American invasion and an insight into the contemporary political situation in Grenada. . . .The articles are well written and the scholarship is sound. . . . The work includes articles by some of the leading scholars of the Grenadian revolution and compares favourably with other books on the subject.”
—Bruce Paddington, Lecturer, Film Programme, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago

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