Robert Anthony Waters
Biographic Data
| ID | 5795708 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Anthony Waters |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert Anthony |
| FAMILY NAME | Waters |
| SIGNATURE | WATERS R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ohio Northern University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A ‘Mudbank’ or ‘the Most Dangerous Area in the World’? Decolonising British Guiana, Czechoslovakia, and the Making of a Cold War Hot Spot in Latin America
The Cold War relationship between British Guiana’s People’s Progressive Party (PPP) and Czechoslovakia is a case study of how decolonising Third World national liberation movements tried to break free from the Western orbit with the help of the Eastern Bloc. PPP co-founder Cheddi Jagan was the unique elected anti-colonial nationalist leader who secretly worked to assist and join the Eastern Bloc. This article highlights cooperation between Britis…
Kwame Nkrumah and the All-African Trade Union Federation
Africanos’ versus ‘Africanitos’ the Soviet-Czechoslovak Competition to Protect the Cuban Revolution
The Cuban Revolution fundamentally changed the approach taken by the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc countries toward Latin America. When Fidel Castro took power, the Communist countries began to open embassies in Cuba and develop mutual relations. Along with the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia quickly normalized relations with the new regime and became one of the most active Eastern Bloc countries diplomatically, economically, and in the intellig…
Nancy Mitchell Jimmy Carter in Africa
Reviewed by : Robert Anthony Waters Jr, Ohio Northern University [email protected] Nancy Mitchell has written a very good book about Jimmy and the Cold War in Africa, focusing on his response to crises in White-minority-ruled Rhodesia and the Horn of Africa. The width and depth of her research is a model that diplomatic historians should aspire to achieve, her writing flows, and she places Carter's Africa policy within the larger context …
Death in the Congo
Reviewed by: Robert Waters, Ohio Northern University, [email protected] or [email protected] Lumumba's assassination has been the subject of many studies. Economic determinism has been their authors' preferred analytical approach; morality tale has provided their tone. Death in the Congo is not more of the same. It is a model of scholarship, featuring subtle portraiture, historical empathy, and skilled use of social science. Emmanuel Ger…
Ordering Independence
Spencer Mawby Ordering Independence: The End of Empire in Anglophone Caribbean 1947-69 New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 312 pp. $100 (cloth) ISBN 978-0-23027-818-9Why did federation fail among British West Indian colonies? Why are independent nations that emerged from its wreckage mired in poverty and frequent instability? Spencer Mawby sets out to answer these questions in Ordering Independence: The End of Empire in Anglophone Caribbean 1947-…
American Labor's Global Ambassadors
After World War II, the AFL-CIO pursued an ambitious agenda of containing global communism and helping to throw off the shackles of colonialism. This sweeping collection brings together contributions
American Labor's Global Ambassadors
Striking for freedom? International intervention and the Guianese sugar workers' strike of 1964
This article calls into question the conventional narrative about international meddling in British Guiana, which argues that US intervention against the Leftist government of Premier Cheddi Jagan was the proximate cause for the colony's racial violence as it moved to independence. The authors focus on the violent pro-government sugar workers' strike of 1964 and in particular the role of Jagan's wife, Janet, presenting evidence from retired Cuban…
Historical Dictionary of United States-Africa Relations
The image of Africa among Americans at the beginning of the 21st century is tragic; America's image among Africans is of a place that is splendid but arrogant and unfeeling. Both have large elements of truth. Poverty, coups, corruption, pandemic disease, and tribal, racial, and religious violence are all too common in Africa. So too is Americans' lack of concern about the people of a continent that suffers from these tragedies, as well as their g…
"When you're handed money on a platter, it's very hard to say, 'where are you getting this?'"
The World's Longest General Strike
Journal Article The World's Longest General Strike: The AFL-CIO, the CIA, and British Guiana Get access Robert Waters, Robert Waters Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Gordon Daniels Gordon Daniels Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 29, Issue 2, April 2005, Pages 279–307, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2005.00474.x Published: 15 March 2005
Africanos’ versus ‘Africanitos’ the Soviet-Czechoslovak Competition to Protect the Cuban Revolution
The Cuban Revolution fundamentally changed the approach taken by the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc countries toward Latin America. When Fidel Castro took power, the Communist countries began to open embassies in Cuba and develop mutual relations. Along with the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia quickly normalized relations with the new regime and became one of the most active Eastern Bloc countries diplomatically, economically, and in the intellig…
Striking for freedom? International intervention and the Guianese sugar workers' strike of 1964
This article calls into question the conventional narrative about international meddling in British Guiana, which argues that US intervention against the Leftist government of Premier Cheddi Jagan was the proximate cause for the colony's racial violence as it moved to independence. The authors focus on the violent pro-government sugar workers' strike of 1964 and in particular the role of Jagan's wife, Janet, presenting evidence from retired Cuban…
Historical Dictionary of United States-Africa Relations
The image of Africa among Americans at the beginning of the 21st century is tragic; America's image among Africans is of a place that is splendid but arrogant and unfeeling. Both have large elements of truth. Poverty, coups, corruption, pandemic disease, and tribal, racial, and religious violence are all too common in Africa. So too is Americans' lack of concern about the people of a continent that suffers from these tragedies, as well as their g…
The World's Longest General Strike
Journal Article The World's Longest General Strike: The AFL-CIO, the CIA, and British Guiana Get access Robert Waters, Robert Waters Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Gordon Daniels Gordon Daniels Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 29, Issue 2, April 2005, Pages 279–307, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2005.00474.x Published: 15 March 2005
"When you're handed money on a platter, it's very hard to say, 'where are you getting this?'"
Historical Dictionary of United States-Africa Relations
The image of Africa among Americans at the beginning of the 21st century is tragic; America's image among Africans is of a place that is splendid but arrogant and unfeeling. Both have large elements of truth. Poverty, coups, corruption, pandemic disease, and tribal, racial, and religious violence are all too common in Africa. So too is Americans' lack of concern about the people of a continent that suffers from these tragedies, as well as their g…
Striking for freedom? International intervention and the Guianese sugar workers' strike of 1964
This article calls into question the conventional narrative about international meddling in British Guiana, which argues that US intervention against the Leftist government of Premier Cheddi Jagan was the proximate cause for the colony's racial violence as it moved to independence. The authors focus on the violent pro-government sugar workers' strike of 1964 and in particular the role of Jagan's wife, Janet, presenting evidence from retired Cuban…
American Labor's Global Ambassadors
After World War II, the AFL-CIO pursued an ambitious agenda of containing global communism and helping to throw off the shackles of colonialism. This sweeping collection brings together contributions
American Labor's Global Ambassadors
Ordering Independence
Spencer Mawby Ordering Independence: The End of Empire in Anglophone Caribbean 1947-69 New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 312 pp. $100 (cloth) ISBN 978-0-23027-818-9Why did federation fail among British West Indian colonies? Why are independent nations that emerged from its wreckage mired in poverty and frequent instability? Spencer Mawby sets out to answer these questions in Ordering Independence: The End of Empire in Anglophone Caribbean 1947-…
Death in the Congo
Reviewed by: Robert Waters, Ohio Northern University, [email protected] or [email protected] Lumumba's assassination has been the subject of many studies. Economic determinism has been their authors' preferred analytical approach; morality tale has provided their tone. Death in the Congo is not more of the same. It is a model of scholarship, featuring subtle portraiture, historical empathy, and skilled use of social science. Emmanuel Ger…
Nancy Mitchell Jimmy Carter in Africa
Reviewed by : Robert Anthony Waters Jr, Ohio Northern University [email protected] Nancy Mitchell has written a very good book about Jimmy and the Cold War in Africa, focusing on his response to crises in White-minority-ruled Rhodesia and the Horn of Africa. The width and depth of her research is a model that diplomatic historians should aspire to achieve, her writing flows, and she places Carter's Africa policy within the larger context …
Africanos’ versus ‘Africanitos’ the Soviet-Czechoslovak Competition to Protect the Cuban Revolution
The Cuban Revolution fundamentally changed the approach taken by the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc countries toward Latin America. When Fidel Castro took power, the Communist countries began to open embassies in Cuba and develop mutual relations. Along with the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia quickly normalized relations with the new regime and became one of the most active Eastern Bloc countries diplomatically, economically, and in the intellig…
Kwame Nkrumah and the All-African Trade Union Federation
A ‘Mudbank’ or ‘the Most Dangerous Area in the World’? Decolonising British Guiana, Czechoslovakia, and the Making of a Cold War Hot Spot in Latin America
The Cold War relationship between British Guiana’s People’s Progressive Party (PPP) and Czechoslovakia is a case study of how decolonising Third World national liberation movements tried to break free from the Western orbit with the help of the Eastern Bloc. PPP co-founder Cheddi Jagan was the unique elected anti-colonial nationalist leader who secretly worked to assist and join the Eastern Bloc. This article highlights cooperation between Britis…
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