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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.
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Brian Meeks is Senior Lecturer and Head, Department of Government, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.
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The first recorded analysis of revolution as a phenomenon is widely accepted as having been made by Aristotle (384-322 BC), who is also generally accepted as being the first person to seriously attempt to approach the study of politics with scientific rigour. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
available ideological context, permissive world context, formative context, ruling bloc, revolutionary outcomes, mass mobilisation, revolutionary upsurge, joint leadership Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Fidel Castro, Maurice Bishop, Soviet Union, Third World, Bernard Coard, Latin America, Central Committee, Failed Revolution, Central America, Eastern Europe, West Indian, World War, John Dunn, Cambridge University Press, Theda Skocpol, Humberto Ortega, Prime Minister, Caribbean Report, Eric Gairy, Platt Amendment, Political Bureau, Unison Whiteman, Chester Humphrey New!
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The first recorded analysis of revolution as a phenomenon is widely accepted as having been made by Aristotle (384-322 BC), who is also generally accepted as being the first person to seriously attempt to approach the study of politics with scientific rigour. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
available ideological context, permissive world context, formative context, ruling bloc, revolutionary outcomes, mass mobilisation, revolutionary upsurge, joint leadership Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Fidel Castro, Maurice Bishop, Soviet Union, Third World, Bernard Coard, Latin America, Central Committee, Failed Revolution, Central America, Eastern Europe, West Indian, World War, John Dunn, Cambridge University Press, Theda Skocpol, Humberto Ortega, Prime Minister, Caribbean Report, Eric Gairy, Platt Amendment, Political Bureau, Unison Whiteman, Chester Humphrey New!
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- Modern Revolutions: An Introduction to the Analysis of a Political Phenomenon by John Dunn on 6 pages
- Revolution in the Third World: Revised Edition by Gerard Chaliand on 4 pages
- Is Cuba Socialist?: 2 by Irene Dumont on 4 pages
- The Anatomy of Revolution by Crane Brinton on page 12, page 44, and Back Matter
- On Revolution (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by Hannah Arendt on page 43, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- New Caribbean Thought: A Reader by Brian Meeks in Front Matter, page 324, and Back Matter
- Modern Latin American Revolutions: Second Edition by Eric Selbin in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Afro-Creole: Power, Opposition, and Play in the Caribbean by Richard D. E. Burton in Back Matter
- U.S. Intervention and Regime Change in Nicaragua by Mauricio Solaun in Back Matter
- No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991 (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) by Jeff Goodwin in Back Matter
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