Cheddi Jagan And The Politics Of Power
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Cheddi Jagan And The Politics Of Power
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Author : Colin A. Palmer
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2010-11-02
Cheddi Jagan And The Politics Of Power written by Colin A. Palmer and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-02 with History categories.
Colin Palmer, one of the foremost chroniclers of twentieth-century British and U.S. imperialism in the Caribbean, here tells the story of British Guiana's struggle for independence. At the center of the story is Cheddi Jagan, who was the colony's first premier following the institution of universal adult suffrage in 1953. Informed by the first use of many British, U.S., and Guyanese archival sources, Palmer's work details Jagan's rise and fall, from his initial electoral victory in the spring of 1953 to the aftermath of the British-orchestrated coup d'etat that led to the suspension of the constitution and the removal of Jagan's independence-minded administration. Jagan's political odyssey continued--he was reelected to the premiership in 1957--but in 1964 he fell out of power again under pressure from Guianese, British, and U.S. officials suspicious of Marxist influences on the People's Progressive Party, founded in 1950 by Jagan and his activist wife, Janet Rosenberg. But Jagan's political life was not over--after decades in the opposition, he became Guyana's president in 1992. Subtly analyzing the actual role of Marxism in Caribbean anticolonial struggles and bringing the larger story of Caribbean colonialism into view, Palmer examines the often malevolent roles played by leaders at home and abroad and shows how violence, police corruption, political chicanery, racial politics, and poor leadership delayed Guyana's independence until 1966, scarring the body politic in the process.
Ethno Politics And Power Sharing In Guyana
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Author : David Hinds
language : en
Publisher: New Academia Publishing, LLC
Release Date : 2011
Ethno Politics And Power Sharing In Guyana written by David Hinds and has been published by New Academia Publishing, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
Hinds presents a useful guide at large for understanding the problem of governance, democracy, and society in ethnically divided countries and how to create a framework aimed at solving the problem.
Colin Palmer S Trilogy On Imperialism In The Caribbean Omnibus E Book
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Author : Colin A. Palmer
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2014-03-01
Colin Palmer S Trilogy On Imperialism In The Caribbean Omnibus E Book written by Colin A. Palmer and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-01 with History categories.
This Omnibus E-Book brings together all three of Colin A. Palmer's books on the making of the modern Caribbean. Included are: Freedom's Children: The 1938 Labor Rebellion and the Birth of Modern Jamaica This is the first comprehensive history of Jamaica's watershed 1938 labor rebellion and its aftermath. The rebellion produced two rival leaders who dominated the political life of the colony through the achievement of independence in 1962. Alexander Bustamante, a moneylender, founded the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union and its progeny, the Jamaica Labour Party. Norman Manley, an eminent barrister, led the struggle for self-government and with others established the People's National Party. Palmer sheds new light on the nature of Bustamante's collaboration with the imperial regime, the rise of the trade-union movement, the struggle for constitutional change, and the emergence of party politics in a modernizing Jamaica. Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of Power: British Guiana's Struggle for Independence Palmer here tells the story of British Guiana's struggle for independence. The work details the rise and fall of Cheddi Jagan--from his initial electoral victory in the spring of 1953 to the aftermath of the British-orchestrated coup d'etat that led to the suspension of the constitution and the removal of Jagan's independence-minded administration. Bringing the larger story of Caribbean colonialism into view, this work shows how violence, police corruption, political chicanery, racial politics, and poor leadership delayed Guyana's independence until 1966, scarring the body politic in the process. Eric Williams and the Making of the Modern Caribbean In this first scholarly assessment of Williams (1911-1981), founder of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago's first modern political party and the nation's first prime minister, Palmer explores his life as a scholar and politician and his tremendous influence on the historiography and politics of the Caribbean. Palmer focuses especially on a 14-year period of independence struggles in the Anglophone Caribbean, when Williams helped resolve regional disputes and promoted the creation of a pan-Caribbean federation.
U S Intervention In British Guiana
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Author : Stephen G. Rabe
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2006-05-26
U S Intervention In British Guiana written by Stephen G. Rabe and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-26 with Political Science categories.
In the first published account of the massive U.S. covert intervention in British Guiana between 1953 and 1969, Stephen G. Rabe uncovers a Cold War story of imperialism, gender bias, and racism. When the South American colony now known as Guyana was due to gain independence from Britain in the 1960s, U.S. officials in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations feared it would become a communist nation under the leadership of Cheddi Jagan, a Marxist who was very popular among the South Asian (mostly Indian) majority. Although to this day the CIA refuses to confirm or deny involvement, Rabe presents evidence that CIA funding, through a program run by the AFL-CIO, helped foment the labor unrest, race riots, and general chaos that led to Jagan's replacement in 1964. The political leader preferred by the United States, Forbes Burnham, went on to lead a twenty-year dictatorship in which he persecuted the majority Indian population. Considering race, gender, religion, and ethnicity along with traditional approaches to diplomatic history, Rabe's analysis of this Cold War tragedy serves as a needed corrective to interpretations that depict the Cold War as an unsullied U.S. triumph.
Freedom S Children
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Author : Colin A. Palmer
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2014
Freedom S Children written by Colin A. Palmer and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Business & Economics categories.
Freedom's Children: The 1938 Labor Rebellion and the Birth of Modern Jamaica
The West On Trial
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Author : Cheddi Jagan
language : en
Publisher: Hansib Publishing (Caribbean), Limited
Release Date : 1997-12-02
The West On Trial written by Cheddi Jagan and has been published by Hansib Publishing (Caribbean), Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-12-02 with Guyana categories.
The deeply moving personal account of the struggle against imperialism by one of the Caribbean's leading political personalities.
Caribbean Labor And Politics
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Author : Perry Mars
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2004
Caribbean Labor And Politics written by Perry Mars and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Having more in common than their deaths on the same day in 1997, the late Cheddi Jagan of Guyana and Michael Manley of Jamaica both represented a radical perspective in modern Caribbean politics. Jagan and Manley each had a bold and creative ability to connect labor and politics and made it their priority to minimize poverty and inequality and to enhance the welfare of the Caribbean's disadvantaged and dispossessed. Caribbean Labor and Politics looks closely at the legacies of Jagan and Manley and their ramifications for the political and economic struggles of the Caribbean region and the world. This edited volume brings together a variety of studies on the lives, works, and intellectual and practical contributions of these two stalwart political leaders. The chapters focus primarily on Jagan's and Manley's years as heads of state of their respective countries and also encapsulate their pre-political years-mainly their growing-up experiences and their organizational work in the labor movement. The core contributions of these men are characterized in terms of their pivotal struggles towards the realization of what we term the "working class project."
Forbidden Freedom
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Author : Cheddi Jagan
language : en
Publisher: Hansib Publishing (Caribbean), Limited
Release Date : 1989
Forbidden Freedom written by Cheddi Jagan and has been published by Hansib Publishing (Caribbean), Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with History categories.
First published in 1954, Jagan's ""Story of British,Guiana"" appeared in the aftermath of the military,intervention that removed from office the,democratically elected government of which he was,Premier. Jagan showed how this fitted into both,the colonial policy of Britain and the Cold War,spearheaded by the US. The book includes an,analysis of labour and the colonies as well as a,new preface by the author calling for a break in,policies which are leading both the developed and,developing worlds faster to disaster.
The Indelible Red Stain
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Author : Mohan Ragbeer
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2011-10-01
The Indelible Red Stain written by Mohan Ragbeer and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-01 with History categories.
In 1950 Dr Cheddi Jagan began a movement to transform British Guiana into a Marxist state in South America and soon allied with the USSR in the Cold War then gaining steam. The failure of that dream and the flight of over 400,000 people to North America and Britain are almost forgotten tragedies even among the Diaspora. The Indelible Red Stain – this massive two-volume blockbuster--by Guyanese doctor and political insider Dr Mohan Ragbeer revives the story. His masterful opus will probably become the keystone to understanding the destruction of British Guiana, its bloody race war, and the massive exodus.Dr Mohan Ragbeer writes brilliantly in a style seldom seen from the Caribbean, with encyclopaedic knowledge of history, culture, medicine, forestry, sociology and more, coupled with an elephantine memory of events and discussions of the fifties and sixties. The background is a dangerous river trip in 1961 into remote forests by a multiracial forensic team to investigate a murder. The tales of witnesses to political events contribute to the grim story of the usurpation of another group's political agenda by Dr Jagan and Marxist comrades including Forbes Burnham, a future dictator. Their inept and stubborn pursuit of an unrealistic goal against sage advice, beguiled by an adoring and uninformed following, culminated in the fall of British Guiana, Dr Jagan's disgrace and the shattering of many dreams, hopes and lives. The historical facts and the roles of international agencies--MI5, CIA, KGB and others--are as well-known as the ending of Salvador Allende's socialist regime in Chile, but this book corrects errors and is a stunning insider exposé of Jagan's bungling of government and his role in the ruin of Guyana and the sad fate of its people when it fell to the firebrand Burnham.Ragbeer comes from a family of early and faithful Jagan backers. He gives us first-hand and witnessed accounts of new material, particularly discussions with businessmen and farmers—Jagan's major financiers—whose pragmatic development plans that would have realised a land of plenty. Jagan agreed privately but ignored and even lambasted them publicly as exploiters! He remained stuck in his Soviet rut and emerges like an emperor with no clothes, his body covered with an indelible red rash. Far from being a martyr betrayed by racists and imperialists, a view that has become an industry, Jagan is shown as a failure without original ideas, a poor judge of people who unwisely rejected Kennedy's hand and swallowed Moscow's fanciful promises, blindly believing in Soviet power and reach. His 1953 flaunting of Communism in the face of MI5 was reckless and against all advice. This book forces us to ask tough questions: what did Jagan really achieve? How does he compare with his contemporaries? The answers lie within will no doubt stain his hallowed reputation. The Indelible Red Stain is a brutally honest revaluation of Jagan's place in history, and a caution that aspiring nations must be ever vigilant and critical of those who promise heaven. While personally honest, unlike most politicians, Jagan's bungling of his was the tsunami that uprooted the lives of hundreds of thousands. The book will probably infuriate Jagan's emotional supporters, but they too must face the fact of his ineptitude and the neglect of his people that drenched Guyana with the stubborn stains of blood and fire.This book is long and full of anecdotes, facts and comments by those who placed so much faith in one man; it is a riveting read aimed to inform host nations, diasporal Guyanese, Caribbean peoples and all those who need to see how easy it is to destroy a nation while pretending the very best intentions. It is fascinating and painful to see how a land of promise can become a waste-land, how a tropical paradise can become paradise lost. Mohan Ragbeer has put 50 years of his life into creating this book; it is well worth the wait. (Jagessar)
Faking It
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Author : Cynthia Weber
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 1999
Faking It written by Cynthia Weber and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Social Science categories.
Weber provides an invigorating analysis of U.S. foreign policy in Latin America through the lens of queer theory, one that is certain to spark controversy and debate. She probes popular ideas of how the United States is personified, arguing that a degree of queerness is both absent and present in these perceptions. Weber critically engages the popular image of American culture. Reviewing U.S. military interventions in Latin America from 1959 to 1994, Weber posits that American foreign policy is a set of strategic displacements of castration anxiety. She brilliantly illuminates the cultural anxieties and imperatives that shape foreign policy. Utilizing humor and critical logic, she provides a fascinating perspective on American foreign relations in the Caribbean.