The first scholarly book on the Grenada Revolution from the humanities, this book investigates and breaks the long public silence on the legacies of the Grenada Revolution. The book reveals how the Grenada Revolution shaped the cultural and political vocabularies of the entire Caribbean both during its four-year life (1979-1983) and in the quarter century since its downfall."COVER " -- "Contents" -- "List of Figures" -- "Acknowledgments" -- "Preface" -- "Introduction The Scales of History" -- "Wave" -- "Fault-lines" -- "Fort" -- "Continent" -- "Stone" -- "Volcano" -- "Archipelago" -- "Hurricane" -- "Prison" -- "Sand" -- "Straits" -- "Notes" -- "Works Cited" -- "PermissionsI".