Colin A. Palmer

Colin Palmers "recent highly-acclaimed Eric Williams and the Making of the Modern Caribbean is a scholarly biography of the noted Caribbean statesman and consummate historian. Williams was the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago and head of government for a quarter of a century until his death in 1981. He led his country to Independence from Britain in 1962 and onto Republicanism in 1976.

"Born and reared in Jamaica, Colin Palmer received his BA at the University College of the West Indies/London and his MA and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. He has taught at Oakland University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - serving as Chair of the Department of History and attaining the rank of William Rand Kenan Professor. He also taught at the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York, where he was named a Distinguished Professor. He has held several fellowships, among them at the National Humanities Center, The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the Stanford Humanities Center.

"Palmer is the author of numerous books and articles, including Slaves of the White God: Blacks in Mexico, 1570 – 1650; Human Cargoes: The British Slave Trade to Spanish America, 1700 – 1739; and Passageways: An Interpretive History of Black America (2 vols.). The editorin- chief of the Encyclopedia of African American Life and Culture (6 vols.), his forthcoming book is entitled The Politics of Power: Cheddi Jagan, Great Britain, the United States, and the Struggle for British Guiana."

Recent Books

 * Eric Williams and the Making of the Modern Caribbean (University of North Carolina Press, 2006). Review

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