Caribbean Revolutions and Revolutionary Theory - Meeks, Brian
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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 edition contains a new Preface by Anthony Maginot, Florida International University.

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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 edition contains a new Preface by Anthony Maginot, Florida International University.
Autorenporträt
Brian Meeks is Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University and was chair of the department from 2015-2021. He was Professor of Social and Political Change and Director of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona until 2015. He has taught political theory, comparative politics, Caribbean political thought and African American politics at Michigan State University, Florida International University, Anton de Kom University in Suriname and the University of the West Indies, Mona. He has been Visiting Fellow at the Centre of Latin American Studies at Cambridge University, Visiting Scholar at Brown University and Visiting Tinker Scholar at Stanford University. He has authored or edited twelve books and many articles on Caribbean politics and political theory. Among them are Caribbean Revolutions and Revolutionary Theory: An Assessment of Cuba, Nicaragua and Grenada; Narratives of Resistance: Jamaica, Trinidad, the Caribbean; New Caribbean Thought: a Reader; Envisioning Caribbean Futures: Jamaican Perspectives, Culture, Politics, Race and Diaspora: The Thought of Stuart Hall; The Thought of New World: the Quest for Decolonisation, M.G. Smith: Social Theory and Anthropology in the Caribbean and Beyond and Critical Interventions in Caribbean Politics and Theory. His novel, Paint the Town Red, was published in 2003. His volume of poetry, The Coup Clock Clicks was published in 2018. Other poems have appeared in various anthologies including the seminal Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse. His new book in the Pluto Press Black Critique series - After the Postcolonial Caribbean: Memory, Imagination, Hope - will be published in 2022.