Eric Williams’ Inward Hunger: The Caribbean as a Microcosm of World History
Author(s)
Knight, Frank
Abstract
Examines the education, historical writing, and political leadership of Trinidad-born politician and historian Eric Williams (1911-81). Williams wrote of the legacies of centuries of Caribbean slavery and British democracy from an anticolonialist perspective. His works reflected his leftist ideology with respect to the Cuban Revolution, the Cold War, and black power. During his years as prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago from 1962 to 1981, Williams’s radical stance became less strident. Nonetheless, he continued to advocate economic and political justice, as well as racial harmony for Trinidad and Tobago and the other nations of the Caribbean throughout his political career.
