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The Legacy of Eric Williams: Caribbean Scholar and Statesman

The Legacy of Eric Williams: Caribbean Scholar and Statesman

Palmer, Colin A.

Paperback

Biographies GeneralCaribbean HistoryGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 9766405565
ISBN13: 9789766405564
Publisher: Univ Of The West Indies Pr
Published: Nov 30 2015
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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