In Review
Democracies and Tyrannies of the Caribbean by William Krehm. Lawrence Hill, 236 pp. $9.95 (paper). William Krehm, a "Roosevelt liberal," covered Central America and the Caribbean for Time...
...This volume provides a diverse set of essays on food, education, popular culture, women, economic reform, socialism, domestic politics and foreign policy...
...invasion...
...Institute for Contemporary Studies, 350 pp...
...The introduction is by Richard Hart, who became Grenadian attorney general in 1982 and left the island after the U.S...
...Interim Report of the Joint Mission to Investigate Political Freedom in Guyana by the British Parliamentary Human Rights Group and the Americas Watch Committee...
...Praeger, 466 pp...
...This collection of speeches is from the last years of Maurice Bishop's life, and includes his last interview...
...William Krehm, a "Roosevelt liberal," covered Central America and the Caribbean for Time magazine in the early 1940s...
...George Brizan is an educator who was active with the New Jewel Movement for a brief period in 1973, and later ran for prime minister as the New Democratic Party candidate in 1984, when he was defeated by Herbert Blaize...
...Grenada, Island of Conflict: From Amerindians to People's Revolution, 1498-1979 by George Brizan...
...The University of Texas Press, 290 pp...
...This fascinating volume collects papers delivered by 14 leading scholars from the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Puerto Rico and the United States at the "Conference on Problems of Transition from Slavery to Free Labor in the Caribbean" held in the Dominican Republic in 1981...
...2 (paper...
...Zed Press, 379 pp...
...Krehm compiled some of his unpublished work in Democracies and Tyrannies, which first appeared in Spanish in 1959-he was unable to find a U.S...
...8.95 (paper...
...Their report concludes that the government does wield absolute control over Guyanese society though many of the gross human rights abuses prevalent in other countries of the region are absent...
...Zed Press, 260 pp...
...Refused entry visas, they met with Guyanese opposition representatives in neighboring Trinidad...
...Serious students would do better to consult the originals released by the United States Information Agency...
...10.75 (paper...
...publisher willing to print the work...
...Copies from: AWC, 36 West 44th St., New York, NY 10036...
...His long, scholarly, social history was written in 1984, but ends with the 1979 revolution, serving as an interesting background resource...
...Currently minister of agriculture, Brizan promises to remain a dominant political force...
...The Grenada Papers edited by Paul Seabury and Walter A. McDougall...
...Cuba: Twenty-Five Years of Revolution, 1959-1984 by Sandor Halebsky and John M. Kirk...
...Responding to an invitation from 14 Guyanese civic, religious and political organizations, these two groups jointly endeavored to examine political freedoms in Guyana...
...30 (cloth...
...The original documents are not reproduced in full, the explanatory text is not useful and the "canons of editorial practice" employed here are decidedly unorthodox-illegible passages are "interpretively deciphered," but not so marked...
...13.95 (paper...
...The intent of this book, as Hoover Institute Senior Research Fellow Sidney Hook states in his introduction, is to "destroy the assumptions that dominate the thought," of those "who believe that revolutions are brought about primarily by poverty, deprivation and oppression, and are never engineered by subversive political action...
...Wood's book is an informative history of a distant school of foreign policy...
...The pledge came in marked contrast to the interventionist 1920s, but by 1940, the United States was already trying to reassert its dominance, and the policy's death knell was sounded with the Guatemalan coup of 1954...
...Under the Good Neighbor Policy (1933-1942), the United States agreed not to send armed forces to Latin America unless requested to do so, and not to in any way affect or influence domestic Latin American politics or economics...
...In Nobody's Backyard: Maurice Bishop's Speeches, 1979-1983 edited by Chris Searle...
...The essays are by noted "cuban6logos" including: Philip S. Foner, Joseph Collins, Medea Benjamin, Andre Gunder Frank, Wayne S. Smith, Margaret Randall and James Petras...
...The Johns Hopkins University Press, 282 pp...
...27.50 (cloth...
...According to Gregorio Selser's introduction, the clamor ensuing its South American release cost Krehm his job...
...These documents are extraordinary, and hardly need the embellishing by the Right-funded ICS...
...15 pp...
...This is the book's first English-language publication...
...16.95 (paper...
...The Dismantling of the Good Neighbor Policy by Bryce Wood...
...Between Slavery and Free Labor: The Spanish Speaking Caribbean in the Nineteenth Century edited by Manuel Moreno Fraginals, Frank Moya Pons and Stanley L. Engerman...
Vol. 19 • July 1985 • No. 4
