From Columbus to Castro : The History of the Caribbean by Eric Williams - Paperback USED

Doctor Eric Williams, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago from 1956 until his death in 1981, first made his mark as a historian with his famous book Capitalism and Slavery, to which the present volume was a worthy and logical successor.  It is a narrative history written with great verve and vigour, and derived from a wealth of material, which collates all existing knowledge of the Caribbean in relation to the rest of the world.

The first complete history of the region as a whole to have been written, it contributes to our understanding of the modern world by illuminating one important but neglected and misrepresented area of it.  Caught up in the political and economic net of the metropolitan counties for over four and a half centuries, and for part of that time the 'cockpit of the world', it is only in the last fifty years that the Caribbean has achieved independence.  Today the task of interpreting accurately the  colonial past as a guide to the consolidation of that Independence is more necessary than ever.