{"product_id":"the-economic-future-of-the-caribbean","title":"The Economic Future of the Caribbean","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem class=\"style57\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Economic Future of the Caribbean\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003caddress\u003e \u003cspan class=\"body-text2\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eEdited by Eric Williams and E. Franklin Frazier\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/address\u003e \u003caddress\u003e \u003cspan class=\"body-text2\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew Preface by Erica Williams Connell\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan class=\"body-text2\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew Introduction by Tony Martin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"body-text2\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/address\u003e \u003caddress class=\"style54\" align=\"left\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"body-text2\"\u003eThis book,  now almost forgotten, was  first published in 1944 and is now republished for  the first time in  sixty years. It carries a foreword by Erica Williams Connell,  daughter  of Eric Williams and founder of the Eric Williams Memorial Collection   at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In 1943 Dr.  Eric Williams, a thirty-one year old Assistant  Professor of Political and  Social Science at Howard University,  organized a conference on “The Economic  Future of the Caribbean.”   Williams, a  rising star in intellectual and activist circles, brought  together an eclectic  and influential group of experts to debate the  conference theme.  Speakers  included advocates of independence for  Puerto Rico, leaders of the  pro-democracy movement among Caribbean  Americans, scholars, diplomats and the  top brass of the British and  United    States sections of the newly-formed  Anglo-American Caribbean  Commission. Participants discussed the dominance of  sugar throughout  the region, the need for agricultural diversification, the  fisheries  industry and the media.  They also examined race relations, the  future  of colonialism and the prospects for Caribbean  federation. The  proceedings were published under the editorship of Williams and  E.  Franklin Frazier, Professor of Sociology and Chairman of the Division of   Social Sciences at Howard. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In a new  introduction to the current reprint of the  conference proceedings, Tony Martin  for the first time reveals   Williams’ use of this conference as a major  component of his strategy  to gain employment in the Anglo-American Caribbean  Commission.   Williams already saw his scholarship as merely a prelude to a  political  career and the Anglo-American Caribbean Commission presented an   unprecedented opportunity for him to make his much desired transition  from  academia to policy-making. Revealed here for the first time also  is Williams’  employment with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS),  immediate forerunner of  the United States’  Central Intelligence Agency  (CIA).\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eEric  Williams won a Trinidad and Tobago  island  scholarship, graduated at the top of his undergraduate class at Oxford  University  and obtained a D. Phil. from Oxford  in 1938.  He was  successively chief minister, premier and prime minister  of Trinidad and  Tobago  from 1956 to 1981. In academic circles he is best known as  author of Capitalism  and Slavery, one of the outstanding historical  works of the twentieth  century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"body-text2\"\u003e E. Franklin Frazier, the  distinguished sociologist,  was chairman of Howard University’s Division  of Social  Sciences, which sponsored Williams’ 1943 conference.  His  several books  included \u003cem\u003eBlack Bourgeoisie\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Negro Family in the United States\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/address\u003e","brand":"Nicholas Brooklyn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48946207228087,"sku":"00043","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0755\/2503\/0071\/files\/240386998.jpg?v=1785608877","url":"https:\/\/checkout.nicholasbrooklyn.com\/products\/the-economic-future-of-the-caribbean","provider":"Nicholas Brooklyn","version":"1.0","type":"link"}