Island Caribs and French Settlers in Grenada, 1498-1763

On March 13th 1979, West Indians were stunned as they awoke to the news of the first successful revolution in the English Speaking Caribbean. Four and a half years later the revolution succumbed to tragedy and US military invasion. This extraordinary book is the first to give the inside story of the thinking, the internal debates, concrete plans and actions of the Grenadian revolutionary leaders as they both responded to events unfolding in the 1970's and sought to shape them. The different and distinct personalities of the political and military leaders of the revolution come to life, as the author, from his personal knowledge as a young patriot himself, narrates the events of the period and the roles of the various leaders in them. Students of Grenadian and Caribbean history, politics and sociology will find this not only a fascinating and thoroughly enjoyable read, but an indispensable reference work. Anyone, moreover, who wishes to understand the seeds of both the remarkable achievements of the Grenada Revolution and of its implosion, will also need to study this book carefully. Written in a direct, simple, engaging and at times poetic style, the ordinary citizen of Grenada, the Caribbean region, and the West Indian Diaspora will find it impossible to put this book down once the first page is read.

We Move Tonight: The Making of the Grenada Revolution

Mwen Ka Alé presents the story of Grenada's French-lexicon Creole in narrative and multimedia form. The voices of the aged keepers of this rich language bring its history to life, providing a bridge that links past to present.

Mwen Ka Alé: The French-Lexicon Creole of Grenada: History, Language and Culture

The Assassination of Maurice Bishop

A-Z of Grenado Heritage gives a guided tour of Grenada, Carriacou, and Petite Martinique, three of the most beautiful islands in the Caribbean. Every aspect of Grenadian history, geography, culture, and society is covered.

A-Z of Grenada Heritage

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.

The U.S. Invasion of Grenada: Legacy of a Flawed Victory

Pynter Bender is a child of the cane fields of Grenada, the second smallest independent state in the world. This extraordinary debut novel tells of a boy born blind but whose eyes are healed, allowing him to see great beauty. The story charts the painful awakening of a rural population, essentially organized around serfdom, into a raw and uncertain future that can only be achieved through fighting—a civil war that Pynter is drawn in to. Pynter's father leaves him to be brought up by the Bender women, a close-knit group of aunts and cousins, and Pynter's early life is shaped by these women. He begins to understand a world beyond them when his uncle, Birdie the Beloved, the best baker on the island, occasionally returns to the family on his brief periods out of jail. When Pynter comes to love a woman, and later flees his family to hide in the canes from the marauding soldiers, he can no longer ignore the violent world beyond the yard where he lives. "Pynter Bender" is about the conflict between the world of men and women, men who walk away from their families and from the cane fields, and their women who forbear.

Pynter Bender

They Call Me ... A look at nicknames on the Caribbean island of Grenada

A bloody bank robbery. A barroom shootout. A headlong flight out of Castro's Cuba. Three aerial dogfights. A chopper crash in a Jamaican jungle. 
 
And that's just the first day of Jake Fonko's latest adventure. 
 
Hired for a routine delivery job, Jake finds himself stranded in the Caribbean with secret documents from the BCCI -- the notorious "Bank of Crooks and Criminals." Mafia families, drug cartels, scamsters, terrorists and corrupt politicians, not to mention the CIA and the KGB, all want those documents, and Jake quickly gets a crash course in international financial management. That is, he learns how the World's Worst People manage their finances. 
 
Using wits and weaponry to stay a step ahead of his pursuers, Jake ricochets from one tropical paradise to the next. 
 
No passport, no backup. Suffocating surveillance. Danger lurking in every shadow. 
 
How ever will Jake Fonko pull this one out of the fire? 
 
Follow Jake's frantic scramble through the emerald chain of Caribbean sun-drenched isles - Grand Cayman, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Sint Maarten, St. Barts, Martinique, Mustique and Grenada - as he tries to survive his latest caper.

Fonko in the Sun: Grand Cayman/Grenada 1983 (Jake Fonko #4)

Under the silk cotton tree, Flora weaves tales of her village life. Tales of families and friends, strange neighbors and weird events. Tales of the jumbie in the tambranch trees, of the mermaid on the rock, of Miss Eva addressing God and the waves, of Miss Saigoo, swept away by the intemperate river. Tales of a sister's death and a father's neglect. Tales of pain and warmth, tragedy and joy.

A delightful slice of Grenadian life "Under the Silk Cotton Tree" marks the next great step forward in the career of an enormously talented writer.

This series is designed to bring to North American readers the once-unheard voices of writers who have achieved wide acclaim at home, but are not recognized beyond the borders of their native lands. With special emphasis on women writers, Interlink's Emerging Voices series publishes the best of the world's contemporary literature in translation or original English.

Under the Silk Cotton Tree

Set on a West Indian Island, Force Ripe portrays the story of Lee, a little girl growing up in a northern village in the 1970s, when it was normal for children to be left with grandparents while parents went abroad to work and send money home. It was the time of revolution, during which Lee’s father joined a growing Rastafarian movement. Force Ripe tells, in Lee’s voice, the story of her life in the ghetto with her brother and father, when the siblings were taken out of school and left on their own to roam the bushes and smoke ganja. It describes how she was taken by a Rastman when she was just ten, and how she survived - with no one to turn to - during a time of women’s liberation, free education and youth movements. She is subsequently rescued when the Rastafarian commune is disbanded by the People’s Revolutionary Army-(PRA), and struggles to bury her secret past.

Force Ripe

"A PAGE-TURNING WHO-DONE-IT. A MUST READ!" (Horace Levy, Sociologist, University Lecturer, Civil Society activist and Journalist, Jamaica) Finally, the inside story: honest, self-critical, and based on a wealth of credible and independent documentation. Bernard Coard reveals in dramatic detail the factors, forces and personalities which cumulatively led to deepening crisis within the Grenada Revolution and ultimately to wholesale tragedy. Bernard Coard, United States and British trained economist and university lecturer, played a leading role in the NJM and in the People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada. His experience, including 26 years as a political prisoner, offers a unique insight into the causes, course, and finally the implosion of the Revolution.

The Grenada Revolution: What Really Happened?

This book is about memories of a boarding school life, and is also a tribute to the Grenada Boys Secondary School (GBSS) Hostel as a great educational institution in a then emerging country. Academic disciplines were taught at the GBSS. The Hostel supplemented academics with lessons on personal interactions and relationships, and on social living in general. The keys to life in the Hostel were discipline and camaraderie - in study; in play; and in other aspects of social life. Hostel Boys were more confined than boys living outside, but such confinement was without a baggage of written rules, and life therein provided several opportunities for individual personal development. In the words of one Hostel Boy: "So many of us came to the Hostel as brash, crude, 'ignorant', unhewn base metals, and left as polished gems." Though the book does not specifically deal with the issue, it challenges the reader to ponder the issue of channeling the always roving human spirit in positive directions at a young age.

The Grenada Boys Secondary School Hostel: Reminiscing on a Boarding School Life in Grenada

SKYRED: A Tale Of Two Revolutions (The Grenada Revolution Book 3)

"Omens of Adversity" is a profound critique of the experience of postcolonial, postsocialist temporality. The case study at its core is the demise of the Grenada Revolution (1979–1983), and the repercussions of its collapse. In the Anglophone Caribbean, the Grenada Revolution represented both the possibility of a break from colonial and neocolonial oppression, and hope for egalitarian change and social and political justice. The Revolution's collapse in 1983 was devastating to a revolutionary generation. In hindsight, its demise signaled the end of an era of revolutionary socialist possibility. "Omens of Adversity" is not a history of the Revolution or its fallout. Instead, by examining related texts and phenomena, David Scott engages with broader, enduring issues of political action and tragedy, generations and memory, liberalism and transitional justice, and the possibility of forgiveness. Ultimately, Scott argues that the palpable sense of the neoliberal present as time stalled, without hope for emancipatory futures, has had far-reaching effects on how we think about the nature of political action and justice.

Omens of Adversity: Tragedy, Time, Memory, Justice

This extraordinary book is at one and the same time a work of literature and of history. It is told with poetic flair, in language which brings vividly to life the environment and culture of the first Grenadians, the Caribs and Arawaks, the wars of conquest and occupation of these Grenadians, and their final stand against the French at Leapers' Hill in Sauteurs. The horrors of slavery, and the several wars between the British and the French for ownership of Grenada are compellingly captured. The anti-British, anti-slavery rebellion of 1795-1796, led by Julien Fedon, is narrated in nail-biting style, as are the Grenada ex-Servicemen's riot of 1920, and the Eric Gairy-led 1951 Revolution. The1973-1974 anti-Gairy mass uprising, the 1979-1983 Grenada Revolution, and the crisis, tragedy and US military invasion, all in October 1983, are dramatically narrated. The author finds intriguing ways to explore the continuity, and essential unity, of all these many conflicts and struggles of its many different peoples over the four centuries of Post-Columbian history. This docu-novel grabs you from the opening chapters, and compels you to keep reading to its very end. You can see the mountains and valleys, the trees and grass, the bays and sunsets as they are described, and feel the sea breezes on your face that McBarnette paints with arresting imagery. Likewise, you picture the chief protagonists whom he portrays in each major dramatic phase of Grenada's turbulent history. This is a work which will bring sheer enjoyment to adults and students alike, even as it educates and inspires.

My Mother And I: The Epic Story of Grenada

Grenada is a turbulent marriage between stunning Caribbean beauty and historical conflict. Blood of Belvidere takes readers on an unforgettable journey deep into the tropical mystique that attracted international intrigue to her shores for hundreds of years. As a young boy growing up in Grenada, Scott McDonald's growing pain becomes intertwined with the legacy behind the strange disappearance of a slave-rebellion leader two-hundred years earlier. Secrets and treachery inflict havoc down eight generations of McDonalds, believed to be descendants of the rebel's archenemy. In Scott's search for the truth, he is recruited into an antigovernment movement plotting to overthrow an iron-fisted dictator. When the dictator crushes the movement, Scott flees the island and leaves his entire world behind including the girl he loves, and who is now presumed killed by secret police.He migrates to the United States and enlists in the U.S. Marines to forget his past. But fate intervenes. The U.S. invades the island to topple a brutal Marxist government and to rescue American students from the turmoil. Scott is among the invaders. He seeks retribution for his grief, but echoes of his family past remind him of a more sacred mission. He must uncover why a mysterious event in the Belvidere Mountains two-hundred years ago could still fan the fires of dictatorship, revolution, and invasion.But will he be prepared when he comes face-to-face with the truth?Blood of Belvidere is a story about human struggle in the darkness of oppression, the bitter taste of betrayal, the sustenance of love, and the healing power of reconciliation. This is a story of hope.

Blood of Belvidere: A Grenada Novel

The Rucksack War : U.S. Army Operational Logistics In Grenada, 1983

Since its decimation by Hurricane Ivan in 2004, the three-island state of Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique has been rebuilt, renovated and improved. These islands are once more open for business, and enjoying a newfound prosperity as visitor numbers increase year on year. Grenada has national parks that teem with wildlife and trekking opportunities through forests of nutmeg, avocado and mango trees. Neighboring Carriacou is one of the Caribbean’s top diving destinations and Petit Martinique is a laid-back paradise with unspoilt, secluded beaches.

 

Grenada, Carriacou & Petite Martinique

A Coloring Book For Stoners: Stress Relieving Psychedelic Art For Adults

The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory is the first scholarly book from the humanities on the subject of the Grenada Revolution and the US intervention. It is simultaneously a critique, tribute, and memorial. It argues that in both its making and its fall, the 1979-1983 Revolution was a transnational event that deeply impacted politics and culture across the Caribbean and its diaspora during its life and in the decades since its fall. Drawing together studies of landscape, memorials, literature, music, painting, photographs, film and TV, cartoons, memorabilia traded on e-bay, interviews, everyday life, and government, journalistic, and scholarly accounts, the book assembles and analyzes an archive of divergent memories. In an analysis that is relevant to all micro-states, the book reflects on how Grenada's small size shapes memory, political and poetic practice, and efforts at reconciliation. 


The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory

A book for children teaching them about Grenada, its people, history, culture and natural attractions.

My Home, Grenada

Throwing into suitcases all she brought with her on this Caribbean cruise, Avey Johnson knows she has to go home. She wonders why she has been dreaming of her childhood, of the months of August spent on a small island with her great-aunt. Were these dreams of the Shout Ring and her great-aunt's stories of the slave ships from Africa causing the knots in Avey's stomach? Then, forced to wait overnight in Grenada for the plane home, Avey loses herself in memories of her marriage. It had been a "successful" marriage, taking her from Harlem to Brooklyn to White Plains, New York. But now she feels that her and her late husband's financial gains were made at the cost of their history and passion for life. The next morning, as she walks on the beach in a dream-like trance, emotionally drained from her night of memories, she encounters a man about to leave on his annual trip to his native island of Carriacou. His dancing the Juba dance triggers Avey's memories, and she is talked into going with him. On Carriacou, sixty-five-year-old Avey touches again the feelings of her family, her heritage, and comes to understand, in new ways, traditions she has long forgotten and the importance of knowing - and remembering - her past. -- From 500 Great Books by Women; review by Holly Smith

Praisesong for the Widow

Forward Ever: Journey To A New Grenada (The Grenada Revolution Book 2)

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.

Caribbean Revolutions and Revolutionary Theory: An Assessment of Cuba, Nicaragua, and Grenada

On October 25, 1983, on orders from President Reagan, three AC-130H Spectre gunships flew combat missions in Operation Urgent Fury over the Caribbean island of Grenada. In their first operational live-fire outing since Vietnam, the gunships provided protective fire support and armed reconnaissance for two battalions from the Army's 75th Ranger Regiment making an airborne assault on the Point Salines Airport. Their primary objective was to rescue the U.S. citizens who were students at the nearby True Blue Campus of the St. George's University (SGU) School of Medicine. Flying non-stop from Hurlburt Field, FL, the gunships attacked with withering surgical firepower from their 20mm, 40mm, and 105mm guns to defeat small arms fire and silence Cuban and Grenadian anti-aircraft fire as the stream of MC-130 Combat Talon's and MAC C-130's airdropped the Rangers. After the airfield was secure, the Rangers and 82nd Airborne Division troops continued for the next seven days to pursue the enemy up the island toward the capitol, St. George's. The gunships provided "eye in the sky" armed reconnaissance with instant firepower available to them on request around the clock, eliminating several more key targets. The Spectre gunship's amazing performance at Grenada is an invaluable piece of Air Force history. This is not only a riveting account of the gunships as they "saved the day," it focuses on the gunship's weapon systems to explain how they work to get such awesome results.

Grenada Grinder

The Cary family of Chelsea, Massachusetts, prospered as plantation owners and managers for nearly two decades in the West Indies before the Grenada slave revolts of 1795-1796 upended the sugar trade. Sarah Gray Cary used her quick intelligence and astute judgment to help her family adapt to their shifting fortunes. From Samuel Cary's departure from Boston to St. Kitts in 1764 to the second generation's search for trade throughout the West Indies, Susan Clair Imbarrato tells the compelling story of the Cary family from prosperity and crisis to renewal.

Drawing on a wealth of archival material, this engaging book describes how Sarah Cary managed households in both Grenada and Chelsea while raising thirteen children. In particular, Imbarrato examines Sarah's correspondence with her sons Samuel and Lucius, in which they address family matters, share opinions on political and social events, discuss literature and philosophy, and speculate about business.

"Sarah Gray Cary from Boston to Grenada "offers a rare female perspective on colonial America and Caribbean plantation life and provides a unique view of a seminal period of early American history.

Sarah Gray Cary from Boston to Grenada: Shifting Fortunes of an American Family, 1764-1826

Was the Anglophone Caribbean condemned by its colonial history to permanent conditions of dependency and by Cold War geopolitical realities to international interventionism? In Dependency and Socialism in the Modern Caribbean Euclid Rose focuses upon the efforts made by the English-speaking Caribbean-through case studies that compare and contrast the political economies of Guyana, Jamaica, and Grenada-to break out of the legacy of colonial dependency and underdevelopment through the implementation of a Caribbean brand of socialism. The work considers the Caribbean's adoption of Fabian-style socialism as an alternative to capitalist development and how these socialist policies were impacted by differences in infrastructure capacity, economic and social resources and political agendas. It highlights the pivotal role of race and class, and the hitherto little studied impact of religion, on the region's political economy. Moreover, the study calculates the impact of the global economy upon Caribbean socio-economic conditions, and the ideological, geopolitical, and strategic implications of the Cold War and the Caribbean's socialist alignment on the nature, character, and intensity of British and American interventionism in the region. A must read for political economists in search of a greater understanding of the postcolonial political economy of the Caribbean and Latin America.

Dependency and Socialism in the Modern Caribbean: Superpower Intervention in Guyana, Jamaica, and Grenada, 1970-1985

The Grenada Intervention: The Inside Story

There were 26--not 13--British colonies in America in 1776. Of these, the six colonies in the Caribbean--Jamaica, Barbados, the Leeward Islands, Grenada and Tobago, St. Vincent; and Dominica--were among the wealthiest. These island colonies were closely related to the mainland by social ties and tightly connected by trade. In a period when most British colonists in North America lived less than 200 miles inland and the major cities were all situated along the coast, the ocean often acted as a highway between islands and mainland rather than a barrier.

The plantation system of the islands was so similar to that of the southern mainland colonies that these regions had more in common with each other, some historians argue, than either had with New England. Political developments in all the colonies moved along parallel tracks, with elected assemblies in the Caribbean, like their mainland counterparts, seeking to increase their authority at the expense of colonial executives. Yet when revolution came, the majority of the white island colonists did not side with their compatriots on the mainland.

A major contribution to the history of the American Revolution, "An Empire Divided" traces a split in the politics of the mainland and island colonies after the Stamp Act Crisis of 1765-66, when the colonists on the islands chose not to emulate the resistance of the patriots on the mainland. Once war came, it was increasingly unpopular in the British Caribbean; nonetheless, the white colonists cooperated with the British in defense of their islands. O'Shaughnessy decisively refutes the widespread belief that there was broad backing among the Caribbean colonists for the American Revolution and deftly reconstructs the history of how the island colonies followed an increasingly divergent course from the former colonies to the north.

Grenada

Island Caribs and French Settlers in Grenada, 1498-1763

John Angus Martin

We Move Tonight: The Making of the Grenada Revolution

Joseph Ewart Layne

Mwen Ka Alé: The French-Lexicon Creole of Grenada: History, Language and Culture

Marise La Grenade-Lashley

The Assassination of Maurice Bishop

Godfrey Smith

A-Z of Grenada Heritage

John Angus Martin

The U.S. Invasion of Grenada: Legacy of a Flawed Victory

Philip Kukielski

Pynter Bender

Jacob Ross

They Call Me ... A look at nicknames on the Caribbean island of Grenada

Shirley Anstis

Fonko in the Sun: Grand Cayman/Grenada 1983 (Jake Fonko #4)

B. Hesse Pflingger

Under the Silk Cotton Tree

Jean Buffong

Force Ripe

Cindy McKenzie

The Grenada Revolution: What Really Happened?

Bernard Coard

The Grenada Boys Secondary School Hostel: Reminiscing on a Boarding School Life in Grenada

Winston J. Phillips

SKYRED: A Tale Of Two Revolutions (The Grenada Revolution Book 3)

Bernard Coard

Omens of Adversity: Tragedy, Time, Memory, Justice

David Scott

My Mother And I: The Epic Story of Grenada

Kamau McBarnette

Blood of Belvidere: A Grenada Novel

Dunbar Campbell

The Rucksack War : U.S. Army Operational Logistics In Grenada, 1983

U.S. Department of Defense

Grenada, Carriacou & Petite Martinique

Paul Crask

A Coloring Book For Stoners: Stress Relieving Psychedelic Art For Adults

Alex Gibbons

The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory

Shalini Puri

Fonko in the Sun: Grand Cayman/Grenada 1983 (Jake Fonko #4)

B. Hesse Pflingger

My Home, Grenada

Diafra Thomas Nunez

Praisesong for the Widow

Paule Marshall

Forward Ever: Journey To A New Grenada (The Grenada Revolution Book 2)

Bernard Coard

Caribbean Revolutions and Revolutionary Theory: An Assessment of Cuba, Nicaragua, and Grenada

Brian Meeks

Grenada Grinder

Michael J. Couvillon

Sarah Gray Cary from Boston to Grenada: Shifting Fortunes of an American Family, 1764-1826

Susan Clair Imbarrato

Dependency and Socialism in the Modern Caribbean: Superpower Intervention in Guyana, Jamaica, and Grenada, 1970-1985

Euclid A. Rose

The Grenada Intervention: The Inside Story

Edward Phillip George Seaga

An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean

Andrew O'Shaughnessy

The Making of Grenada: A Sunny Island from Out of the Caribbean Seas

Frank Senauth

Fonko in the Sun: Grand Cayman/Grenada 1983 (Jake Fonko #4)

B. Hesse Pflingger

Grenada: Spice Paradise

Roger Brathwaite