[PDF] Revolution And Counterrevolution In Central America And The Caribbean eBook

Author : Donald E Schulz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,19 MB
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1000309975

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A detailed examination of the roots of revolution and counterrevolution in Central America and the Caribbean, this book draws on the research of an interdisciplinary team of noted scholars. The authors give special attention to the institutional and structural causes of stability and instability—in particular, the traditional role of the United States; the current economic crisis; the changing role of the Roman Catholic church; the influence of the military and security forces, the oligarchy, and the business sector; the problems of instituting socioeconomic reform; the politics of subsistence; and the revolutionary opposition. Following the thematic chapters, a country-by-country focus is employed to assess the situations in El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Jamaica, and a section devoted to the international dimensions of the crisis looks at Mexican, Soviet, Cuban, and U.S. policies toward the region, The editors' concluding chapter explores prospects for the future of this troubled area.

Author : Donald E. Schulz
Publisher :
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 13,47 MB
Release : 2019
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9780429304675

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A detailed examination of the roots of revolution and counterrevolution in Central America and the Caribbean, this book draws on the research of an interdisciplinary team of noted scholars. The authors give special attention to the institutional and structural causes of stability and instability--in particular, the traditional role of the United States; the current economic crisis; the changing role of the Roman Catholic church; the influence of the military and security forces, the oligarchy, and the business sector; the problems of instituting socioeconomic reform; the politics of subsistence; and the revolutionary opposition. Following the thematic chapters, a country-by-country focus is employed to assess the situations in El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Jamaica, and a section devoted to the international dimensions of the crisis looks at Mexican, Soviet, Cuban, and U.S. policies toward the region, The editors' concluding chapter explores prospects for the future of this troubled area.

Author : Rachel A. May
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 33,11 MB
Release : 2018-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1108424759

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A comprehensive history and comparative analysis of the most important Caribbean armed revolutionary movements during the Cold War era.

Author : Edward Boorstein
Publisher :
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 17,34 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9780717807659

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"A comprehensive study of U.S. foreign policy over the course of the 20th century in relation to social and revolutionary upheavals in the Soviet Union, Asia, Africa Latin America and the Caribbean"--

Author : Brian Meeks
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 23,19 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789766401047

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A sophisticated comparative study of the Cuban, Nicaraguan and Grenadian revolutions, using techniques derived from J. S. Mill and perfected by Theda S. Skopol. Despite the unfulfilled promise of all three revolutions, they do suggest that people have the potential to make history and affect positive changes. Originally published by Macmillan Caribbean 1993, this classic contains a new preface by Anthony Maingot, Florida International University.

Author : Gerald Horne
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 31,70 MB
Release : 2014-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1479808725

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Illuminates how the preservation of slavery was a motivating factor for the Revolutionary War The successful 1776 revolt against British rule in North America has been hailed almost universally as a great step forward for humanity. But the Africans then living in the colonies overwhelmingly sided with the British. In this trailblazing book, Gerald Horne shows that in the prelude to 1776, the abolition of slavery seemed all but inevitable in London, delighting Africans as much as it outraged slaveholders, and sparking the colonial revolt. Prior to 1776, anti-slavery sentiments were deepening throughout Britain and in the Caribbean, rebellious Africans were in revolt. For European colonists in America, the major threat to their security was a foreign invasion combined with an insurrection of the enslaved. It was a real and threatening possibility that London would impose abolition throughout the colonies—a possibility the founding fathers feared would bring slave rebellions to their shores. To forestall it, they went to war. The so-called Revolutionary War, Horne writes, was in part a counter-revolution, a conservative movement that the founding fathers fought in order to preserve their right to enslave others. The Counter-Revolution of 1776 brings us to a radical new understanding of the traditional heroic creation myth of the United States.