Crisis in the Caribbean
Robin Cohen editor Fitzroy Ambursley editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:1st Feb '24
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Originally published in 1983, this anthology was the first to integrate the political experiences of the Central American mainland and the Caribbean archipelago and provides analyses of some of the most explosive events of the 1970s and 80s in this region, including the Jonestown massacre, the failures of the Burnham regime in Guyana, the tumultuous elections in Jamaica in 1980, the army officers’ coup d’état in Suriname, the revolutions in Grenada and Nicaragua and the revolutionary upheaval in El Salvador. It also shows how the regional crisis affected such prosperous countries as Trinidad and Tobago and such politically stable regimes in St. Vincent and the French colonies of Martinique and Guadelope. It also discusses the development of the first Socialist regime in the region, Cuba
Review of the original edition of Crisis in the Caribbean:
‘Readers not accustomed to work in the Marxist tradition might expect the book to be fawning toward Cuba and the Soviet Union, polemical rather than argued in a scholarly manner, devoted to crude dependency theory and jargonistic in style. Such readers would be wrong in all four expectations ... a significant work of scholarship’. Robert O’Connor International Education Review, Fall 1984
‘[Chapters] on Guyana by Thomas and Nanton on St Vincent are outstanding while that of Hira on Suriname contains much useful information previously denied English-speaking readers, as does that by Blerald on the French Antilles. The latter is particularly interesting in its analysis of “assimilationist hegemony”, a cultural variant upon the dependencia theme.’ Tony Thorndike International Affairs, 60 (2) 1984.
‘The authors are especially concerned about the development of state bureaucracy as a surrogate mechanism to private capital. … The collection is packaged with an excellent overview essay by the editors. Highly recommended for upper division and graduate levels’. E. M. Dew Choice, September 1984
ISBN: 9781032703442
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 689g
272 pages