Cold War in a Hot Zone: The United States Confronts Labor and Independence Struggles in the British West Indies
()
About this ebook
Beginning just before the start of World War II and ending during the Cold War, Gerald Horne's masterful examination of British Guiana and the British West Indies details the collapse of British colonial structures and the corresponding rise of U.S. regional influence. Horne reveals the realities of race and color in the Caribbean under colonial rule, while the colonizers-Britain, France, Germany, Japan, and the United States-battled each other for hegemony on the world stage.
Horne seamlessly weaves a variety of untapped archival sources-including personal correspondence and newspaper stories from three continents-with a wide range of scholarly publications, journals and memoirs to illustrate an important, yet underexamined, regional history in a global context.
Highlighting the centrality of the "labor question" in relation to colonial rule, Cold War in a Hot Zone is a compelling exposé of the racial dimensions of U.S. foreign policy and anti-communist initiatives during WWII and the Cold War that followed.
Related to Cold War in a Hot Zone
Related ebooks
The End of Empires: African Americans and India Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Storming the Heavens: African Americans and the Early Fight for the Right to Fly Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFrom the Barrel of a Gun: The United States and the War against Zimbabwe, 1965-1980 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5North of the Color Line: Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFrantz Fanon: A Biography Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsState Capitalism and World Revolution Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In Search of Liberty: African American Internationalism in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Forgeries of Memory and Meaning: Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film before World War II Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlack against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Sword & The Dollar: Imperialism, Revolution & the Arms Race Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Red Star Over the Third World Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Black Revolution on Campus Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCedric J. Robinson: On Racial Capitalism, Black Internationalism, and Cultures of Resistance Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlack Marxism, Revised and Updated Third Edition: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Terms of Order: Political Science and the Myth of Leadership Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction and Beyond in Black America, 1945-2006, Third Edition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBeing Somebody and Black Besides: An Untold Memoir of Midcentury Black Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAmerica's First Black Socialist: The Radical Life of Peter H. Clark Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsClass Struggle and the Color Line: American Socialism and the Race Question, 1900-1930 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsModern Politics Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRed International and Black Caribbean: Communists in New York City, Mexico and the West Indies, 1919-1939 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRevisiting Herstories: The Young Lords Party Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable's Malcolm X Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSoledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
United States History For You
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/51776 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Library Book Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A People's History of the United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Killing the Guys Who Killed the Guy Who Killed Lincoln: A Nutty Story About Edwin Booth and Boston Corbett Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer: An Edgar Award Winner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The White Album: Essays Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Twelve Years a Slave (Illustrated) (Two Pence books) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fifties Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Cold War in a Hot Zone
0 ratings0 reviews