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Palmer Colin A. <1944-> |
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Titolo |
Eric Williams & the making of the modern Caribbean [[electronic resource] /] / Colin A. Palmer |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2006 |
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ISBN |
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1-4696-0569-4 |
0-8078-8850-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (367 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Electronic books. |
Trinidad and Tobago Politics and government 20th century |
West Indies, British Politics and government 20th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-338) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 classic Capitalism 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 p |
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