Cold War in a Hot Zone
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Cold War in a Hot Zone

The United States Confronts Labor and Independence Struggles in the British West Indies

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Cold War in a Hot Zone

The United States Confronts Labor and Independence Struggles in the British West Indies

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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.

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Publisher
Temple University Press
Year
2008
ISBN
9781592136292
Topic
Historia
Subtopic
Historia del mundo

Table of contents

  1. CONTENTS
  2. Introduction
  3. CHAPTER ONE Early Organizing
  4. CHAPTER TWO Big Islands/Big Problems
  5. CHAPTER THREE The Labor of War
  6. CHAPTER FOUR When Labor Organizes
  7. CHAPTER FIVE Militant Jamaica
  8. CHAPTER SIX Washington Confronts the West Indies
  9. CHAPTER SEVEN Will Labor Rule?
  10. CHAPTER EIGHT Cold War in a Hot Zone
  11. CHAPTER NINE The Left Retreats
  12. CHAPTER TEN Small Islands/Huge Impact
  13. CHAPTER ELEVEN Militant British Guiana
  14. CHAPTER TWELVE Barbados vs. British Guiana
  15. Conclusion
  16. Epilogue
  17. References
  18. Index
  19. Photo gallery follows page 126