British Historians and the West Indies

Williams, Eric, British Historians and the West Indies, Port-of-Spain: PNM Publishing Co. Ltd., 1964.

Reviewed in The Hispanic American Historical Review © 1967.

Reviewed in The William and Mary Quarterly © 1968.

Reviewed by Elsa V. Goveia in Caribbean Quarterly © 1964.

Contents:

1) The British Historical Writing in the Slavery Period.

2) The World’s Britain’s Oyster.

3) British Historical Writing: 1830 - 1880.

4) The Neo-Fascism of Thomas Carlyle.

5) British Historical Writing and the West Indies: 1830 – 1880.

6) The Background to the Jamaica Rebellion of 1865.

7) The Jamaica Rebellion of 1865.

8) The British Intellectuals and the Jamaica Rebellion.

9) The Economic Eclipse of Great Britain: 1880-1914.

10) British Historical Writing and the West Indies: 1880 – 1914.

11) British Historical Writing between the Two World Wars.

12) British Historical Writing and the West Indies after World War II.

Conclusion.

Bibliography.

Index.