Inward Hunger: The Education of a Prime Minister

by Eric Williams, Colin Palmer (Introduction)

Overview

"When the author, the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, was a lad, his country was a British crown colony, and its government offered one university scholarship a year to the entire population. Young Williams won it, and went off to Oxford to study history and politics. He became an authority on West Indian history and, back home, founded the People's National Movement Party, which has repeatedly returned him to office. Mr. Williams' education has endowed him with a lucid style and, despite his dedication to his homeland, a mind that is anything but insular. This account of his efforts to make a new nation closes in 1968; one looks forward to another installment." -- The New Yorker In the meantime, this autobiography has become a classic in African-Caribbean history. This edition features an introduction by Colin Palmer (Princeton University), the author of Passageways: An Interpretive History of Black America.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781558763876
Publisher:	Wiener, Markus Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date:	09/19/2017
Edition description:	Markus Wiener Publs ed.
Pages:	362
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

Eric Williams built his reputation as a professor of political science at Howard University. He later took an active role in politics, leading Trinidad and Tobago's independence movement and becoming the state's prime minister. Colin Palmer, Princeton University, is the author of Passageways: An Interpretive History of Black America.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Colin Palmer

PART 1 THE STUDENT

1 Portrait of a Colonial Society: Trinidad in 1911

2 Life with Father

3 Education of a Young Colonial

4 At Oxford

PART 2 THE TEACHER

5 "Negro Oxford"

6 West Indian Travel

7 Research in West Indian History

8 West Indian and American Affairs

9 The Anglo-American Caribbean Commission

10 The Indian University

11 Colonial Problems

PART 3 THE INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SERVANT

12 The Caribbean Commission

13 Intellectual Pursuits

14 The Nationalist Backlash

15 Colonialism! There's the Enemy

PART 4 THE PRIME MINISTER

(a) The First Mandate

16 I cast down my bucket

17 Adviser to the Workers

18 The Birth of the P.N.M.

19 The 1956 General Election

20 Constitution Reform

21 Federation

22 Chaguaramas

(i) The Federal Capital Site

(ii) The London Conference

(iii) The Chaguaramas Joint Commission

(iv) The 1941 Agreement

(v) The Legal Aspect of the Agreement

(vi) The Public Campaign

(vii) April 22, 1960

(viii) The Tobago Conference

23 Member of the Legislative Council

24 The Party Organisation

25 Intellectual Pursuits

(b) The Second Mandate

26 The 1961 General Election

27 Independence

28 External Affairs

29 Direct Democracy

30 Member of Parliament

31 The Party in the Era of Independence

32 Intellectual Pursuits

(c) The Third Mandate

33 The 1966 General Election

34 The Reality of Independence

Index