New this month - New Jewel Movement publications

Newly added to the collections are important primary sources for the study of Grenada, consisting of one issue (Aug 1981) of the Newsletter of the New Jewel Movement National Women’s Organisation and a number of issues from 1981-1983 of the New Jewel, the newspaper of the New Jewel Movement.


The New Joint Endeavour for Welfare, Education, and Liberation, or New JEWEL Movement (NJM), was a Marxist-Leninist vanguard party in the Caribbean island nation of Grenada. The NJM was established in 1973 as an alliance of the Joint Endeavour for Welfare, Education and Liberation (JEWEL) and the Movement for Assemblies of the People (MAP), and was led by the lawyer Maurice Bishop. The movement was an opposition political party through the 1970s and took control of the country with a successful revolution against the government of Eric Gairy in 1979 ruling by decree until being deposed by the US military after its 1983 invasion.

These new additions add to our collection of secondary sources on Grenada, Grenadian politics, the revolution and the invasion, as well as primary material published by the New Jewel Movement and support groups (established after the invasion) which include earlier issues of the New Jewel Movement’s newspaper entitled New Jewel : let those who labour hold the reins. The collection also includes material published by the Grenada National Party, National Democratic Party, and the Grenada Seamen and Waterfront Workers' Union and Grenada Commercial and Industrial Workers' Union, as well as speeches by Maurice Bishop, when he held the post of Prime Minister

CFP: The Grenada Intervention 30 Years On: A Retrospective

The Grenada Intervention 30 Years On: A Retrospective

Almost 30 years on from the intervention the events of that period are still strongly contested; so too the legacies of the intervention.

However, a number of recent developments have begun to heal some of the wounds. For example, several former detainees of the People's Revolutionary Government (PRG), including current Prime Minister Tillman Thomas, are now serving in government. In 2006 a Truth and Reconciliation Commission published its report - Redeeming the past: A time for healing; in 2009 the international airport, which was a source of great controversy under the PRG, was renamed after Maurice Bishop; and also in 2009 the last members of the 'Grenada 17' convicted of Bishop's murder were released.

Therefore as the 30th anniversary of the intervention approaches it is a good time to reflect on the significance of these recent developments, as well as looking back at the PRG, the intervention and its aftermath.

Possible topics for inclusion in the special issue of The Round Table are (not exhaustive):

* The legitimacy/legality of the intervention from a contemporary perspective (post-Iraq etc.)
* The role of the US in the Caribbean after the intervention
* The PRG: a re-evaluation
* Intervention and the death of reformist left-wing politics in the Commonwealth Caribbean
* The UK and Grenada from associated statehood to intervention and beyond
* The legal/judicial story of the Grenada 17
* The legacy of the 1979 to 1983 PRG period for Grenada

Schedule for the special issue:

The deadline for papers is Friday 20 July 2012. The editing and peer-review process will take place between August and November 2012. Final copy will be submitted to The Round Table in December 2012. The issue will then be published in April 2013.

Instructions for authors can be found on The Round Table website here:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/ctrtauth.asp

For further information and/or submission of manuscripts please contact Dr Gary Williams or Dr Peter Clegg.

Dr Gary Williams, University of Essex, E-mail: gcwill@essex.ac.uk
Dr Peter Clegg, University of the West of England, E-mail: peter.clegg@uwe.ac.uk

CFP: Roundtable special issue on ‘The Invasion of Grenada 30 years on: a retrospective’

The Round Table – the Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs

 

SPECIAL ISSUE – CALL FOR PAPERS

 

‘The Invasion of Grenada 30 years on: a retrospective’

 

Almost 30 years on from the Invasion the events of that period are still strongly contested; so too the legacies of invasion. However, a number of recent developments have begun to heal some of the wounds. For example, several former detainees of the People’s Revolutionary Government (PRG), including current Prime Minister Tillman Thomas, are now serving in government. In 2006 a Truth and Reconciliation Commission published its report – Redeeming the past: A time for healing; in 2009 the international airport, which was a source of great controversy under the PRG, was renamed after Maurice Bishop; and also in 2009 the last members of the ‘Grenada 17’ convicted of Bishop’s murder were released. Therefore as the 30th anniversary of the invasion approaches it is a good time to reflect on the significance of these recent developments, as well as looking back at the PRG, the invasion and its aftermath.

 

Possible topics for inclusion in the special issue (not exhaustive):

• The legitimacy/legality of invasion from a contemporary perspective (post-Iraq etc.)
• The role of the US in the Caribbean after the invasion
• The PRG: a re-evaluation
• Invasion and the death of reformist left-wing politics in the Commonwealth Caribbean
• The UK and Grenada from associated statehood to invasion and beyond
• The legal/judicial story of the Grenada 17
• The legacy of the 1979 to 1983 PRG period for Grenada

Schedule for the special issue:

 

The deadline for papers is Friday 20 July 2012. The editing and peer-review process will take place between August and November 2012. Final copy will be submitted to The Round Table in December 2012. The issue will then be published in April 2013.

 

Instructions for authors can be found on The Round Table website here: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/ctrtauth.asp

 

 

For further information and/or submission of manuscripts please contact Dr Gary Williams, University of Essex or Dr Peter Clegg, University of the West of England, Bristol 


See also http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/cfp/ctrtcfp.pdf.

 

Spice up your life!

As the colder weather approaches you may be thinking of spicier foods, we're thinking about books and government reports on spices and the spice trade within the Commonwealth. The Library collections include many reports and other publications on specific crops and commodities. To get you into a warmer mood here's a selection on spices to whet your appetite:

Zanzibar. Committee Appointed to Discuss the Rationalization of the Clove Industry.
Report / (chairman: G.D. Kirsopp).
Zanzibar, 1929.
STACK SERVICE [ICOMM] HD9210 ZAN

Troup, Robert Scott, 1874-1939.
Report on clove cultivation in the Zanzibar Protectorate.
Zanzibar : Govt. Printer, 1932.
STACK SERVICE [ICOMM] SB307 C6 TRO

Kirsopp, G. D. (George Dougal), 1888-
Report of a mission appointed to investigate the clove trade in India and Burma, Ceylon, British Malaya and the Dutch East Indies / by G.D. Kirsopp and C.A. Bartlett.
London : Published on behalf of the Government of Zanzibar by the Crown Agents for the Colonies, 1933.
STACK SERVICE [ICOMM] HD9210 KIR fol

Grenada. Inquiry Into the Nutmeg Industry of Grenada.
Report / (Chairman: D.E. Jackson).
St. George's : G.P., 1951.
STACK SERVICE [ICOMM] HD9248 GRE fol

Zanzibar.
Report of the Clove Mission to India, Jan. 6th - 20th. 1958.
Zanzibar, 1958.
STACK SERVICE [ICOMM] HD9210 ZAN

Ly-Tio-Fane, Madeleine.
Mauritius and the spice trade : the odyssey of Pierre Poivre / [documents] Edited by Madeleine Ly-Tio-Fane.
Port Louis, Mauritius : Esclapon, 1958.
[Mauritius. Archives Dept.] Publication ; no.4.
STACK SERVICE [ICOMM] HD9210 LYT

Bartlett, C. A.
Clove growers association commentary.
Zanzibar : Zanzibar Nationalist Party, 1959.
Microfiche
ICOMM Ground Floor Libr M841

Zanzibar clove industry : statement of Government policy and report / by R. A Crofts.
[Zanzibar] : Zanzibar Protectorate, [1959]
Contents: Zanzibar Protectorate. Legislative Council. Statement by Government on the development of the clove industry.--Crofts, R. A. Report on the Zanzibar clove industry.
STACK SERVICE [ICOMM] HD9210 ZAN

Bastin, John Sturgus, 1927-
The changing balance of the early Southeast Asian pepper trade
Kuala Lumpur : Dept. of History, University of Malaya, 1960.
STACK SERVICE [ICOMM] HD9210 BAS

Saw Huat Guan.
The production and potential of spices in West Malaysia with special reference to pepper, clove and nutmeg.
Kuala Lumpur : Malaya University, Faculty of Agriculture, 1971.
Microfiche 3 cards.
ICOMM Ground Floor Libr MF163

Grenada. Commission of Enquiry Into the Affairs of the Grenada Co-operative Nutmeg Association.
Report / (chairman: E.R. Ward).
St. George's : G.P., 1971.
STACK SERVICE [ICOMM] HD9248 GRE fol

Mayers, J. M.
The nutmeg industry of Grenada
Kingston, Jamaica : Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies, c1974.
STACK SERVICE [ICOMM] HD9248 MAY fol

Moore, M. P.
The state and the cinnamon industry in Sri Lanka
Colombo : Agrarian Research & Training Institute, 1978.
STACK SERVICE [ICOMM] HD9210 MOO fol

Sheriff, Abdul.
Slaves, spices, & ivory in Zanzibar : integration of an East African commercial empire into the world economy, 1770-1873
London : J. Currey ; Athens : Ohio University Press, 1987.
ICOMM Ground Floor Libr DT447 SHE

Nandakumar, T.
The global spice trade and the Uruguay round agreements
Geneva, Switzerland :, London : International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO, Commonwealth Secretariat, 1996.
STACK SERVICE [ICOMM] HD9210 NAN

Brizan, George I.
The nutmeg industry, Grenada's black gold
Grenada? : s.n., 1979?]
STACK SERVICE [ICOMM] HD9248 BRI

Brizan, George I.
Black gold revisited, 22 years later 2001
Grenada : The Author? : St George's Government Printery, 2003.
STACK SERVICE [ICOMM] HD9248 BRI

Douglas, Claude J.
The Battle for Grenada's black gold
St. Andrew, Grenada : Maryzoon Press, c2004.
STACK SERVICE [ICOMM] HD9248 DOU