Eric Williams: The historian as public intellectual. (5th January 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: St. Pierre, Maurice
• Is Part Of: Journal of labor and society. Volume 23:Number 1(2020)
• Page Start: 57
• Page End: 73
• Publication Date: 2020-01-05
• Subjects: Working class -- Periodicals; Labor unions -- Periodicals; Labor -- Periodicals; Labor unions -- United States -- Periodicals; Labor -- United States -- Periodicals; Working class -- United States -- Periodicals; Labor; Labor unions; Working class; Periodicals; 331
• DOI: 10.1111/wusa.12458
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2471-4607

Abstract

Abstract: Eric Williams was an academic intellectual who authored the well‐regarded book Capitalism and Slavery, a public intellectual who left the academy to make his knowledge available to a wider audience or public in Trinidad and Tobago where he was born and, eventually, a social movement intellectual who led his country to political independence from Britain in 1962. This study focuses on Williams's efforts as a public intellectual to construct a public and space for his anticolonial renderings which became part of the public sphere.