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PublisherUniversity of T.H.E. West Indies Press

ISBN-109766405565

ISBN-139789766405564

eBay Product ID (ePID)3038668768

Product Key Features

Number of Pages300 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameLegacy of Eric Williams : Caribbean Scholar and Statesman

Publication Year2015

SubjectWorld / Caribbean & Latin American, Caribbean & West Indies / General

TypeTextbook

AuthorColin A. Palmer

Subject AreaPolitical Science, History

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight13.4 Oz

Item Length8.9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2016-485345

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal972.98304092

Table Of ContentAcknowledgement List of Abbreviations Introduction COLIN A. PALMER The Life and Work of Eric Williams ARNOLD RAMPERSAD Eric Williams, His Associates and the Imagination of an Anti-colonial Society LYDIA LINDSEY Eric Williams as a Man of Culture SELWYN R. CUDJOE Eric Williams and the Challenges of Caribbean Integration COLIN A. PALMER Eric Williams and the Construction of a Caribbean History FRANKLIN W. KNIGHT Capitalism and Slavery Revisited: The ?Williams Thesis? in Atlantic Perspective DALE TOMICH The Triangular Trade from a Global Perspective RONALD FINDLAY AND KEVIN HJORTSHØJ O?ROURKE Capitalism, Slavery and the Brazilian Coffee Economy: Eric Williams and the Historiography of Brazilian Slavery RAFAEL MARQUESE The Industrial Revolution in Atlantic Perspective: County History and National History JOSEPH E. INIKORI Contributors

SynopsisThis is the first comprehensive historical assessment of the career of Eric Williams, the scholar and statesman. A historian of outstanding talent, Williams's scholarly work has been the subject of various international conferences. He introduced a new era in the study of slavery, focusing less on the oppressive conditions of that odious system of labour and more on its role in the construction of Western capitalism., This is the first comprehensive historical assessment of the career of Eric Williams, the scholar and statesman. Born in Trinidad and Tobago in 1911, Eric Williams published his classic work Capitalism and Slavery in 1944 and several other books thereafter. A historian of outstanding talent, Williams?s scholarly work has been the subject of various international conferences. He introduced a new era in the study of slavery, focusing less on the oppressive conditions of that odious system of labour and more on its role in the construction of Western capitalism. Historians are still animated by Williams?s conclusions, and the questions he posed are still relevant to our mature understanding of the ways in which the African slave trade and slavery shaped the economies of a variegated group of societies. Eric Williams was also the head of government of Trinidad and Tobago from 1956 to 1981. He became the premier of his country in 1961 and its first prime minister in 1962. He died in 1981 after dominating the politics of his country for a quarter of a century. This volume also includes analyses of Williams?s enormous contributions to the making of the modern Caribbean as a statesman and a scholar.

LC Classification NumberF2123