Eric Williams and the Making of the Modern Caribbean

Name: Eric Williams and the Making of the Modern Caribbean
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ISBN: 9780807859247

ISBN-10: 0807859249

ISBN-13: 9780807859247

Edition: 2008

Authors: Colin A. Palmer

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Born in Trinidad, Eric Williams (1911-81) founded the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago's first modern political party in 1956, led the country to independence from the British culminating in 1962, and became the nation's first prime minister. Before entering politics, he was a professor at Howard University and wrote several books, including the classicCapitalism and Slavery. In the first scholarly biography of Williams, Colin Palmer provides insights into Williams's personality that illuminate his life as a scholar and politician and his tremendous influence on the historiography and politics of the Caribbean. Palmer focuses primarily on the fourteen-year period of struggles for…

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List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 9/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.82" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

Colin A. Palmer is Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Intellectual Decolonization



The Challenge of Political and Economic Integration



The Struggle for Chaguaramas



Eric Williams and the Golden Handshake



Courting Grenada



Bleeding Guiana



Eric Williams, Africa, and Africans



The Economics and Politics of Race


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index