Grenada Documents
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Page : 888 pages
File Size : 12,20 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Communism
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Page : 888 pages
File Size : 12,20 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Communism
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Author : Brian Crozier
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Page : 200 pages
File Size : 22,94 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
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The American invasion of the Caribbean island of Grenada in October 1983 yielded a treasure-trove of captured documents showing the inner workings of the New Jewel movement. This book tells the inside story of the Grenadian Revolution and the making of a totalitarian state.
Author : Nicholas Dujmović
Publisher : Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, Incorporated
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 28,9 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
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Author : Ronald H. Cole
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Page : 98 pages
File Size : 22,42 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Grenada
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Page : 302 pages
File Size : 36,92 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Grenada
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File Size : 40,58 MB
Release : 1984
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Author : Philip Kukielski
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 20,94 MB
Release : 2020-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1476638322
In the fall of 1983, arguably the coldest year of the decades-long Cold War, the world's greatest superpower invaded Grenada, a Marxist-led Caribbean nation the size of Atlanta. Why and how this unlikely one-week war was waged was shrouded in secrecy at the time--and has remained so ever since. This book is an overdue reconsideration of Operation Urgent Fury, based on historical evidence that only recently has been revealed in declassified documents, oral history interviews and memoir accounts. This chronological narrative emphasizes the human dimension of a sudden crisis now regarded as the greatest foreign policy challenge of President Ronald Reagan's first term. Because the American intervention was hastily drafted, many snafus and accidents marked the chaotic initial days of the operation. Inevitably it fell to individual soldiers, aviators and sailors to perform heroic acts to make up for faulty intelligence, inadequate communication or poor coordination. This work recounts their inspiring, underreported stories in filling out a more complete portrait of Operation Urgent Fury. The final chapter recounts the invasion's aftereffects, especially the unexpected role it played in Congressional reform of the military for future combat in the Middle East.
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Page : 808 pages
File Size : 46,28 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Latin America
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Contains scholarly evaluations of books and book chapters as well as conference papers and articles published worldwide in the field of Latin American studies. Covers social sciences and the humanities in alternate years.
Author : Jiri Valenta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 12,76 MB
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0429697953
The turmoil in the Caribbean and Central America does not have a single cause; it results from both indigenous factors and outside intervention. Some liberals see revolution as the result of poverty and injustice and ignore the East-West security dimensions of the problem, the role of Leninist ideology, and the actions of the Soviet Union and its a
Author : Wendy C. Grenade
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 28,86 MB
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1626743452
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.