Bøker av Eric Williams

'It's often said that books are compulsory reading, but this book really is compulsory. You cannot understand slavery, or British Empire, without it' Sathnam Sanghera Arguing that the slave trade was at the heart of Britain's economic progress, Eric Williams's landmark 1944 study revealed the connections between capitalism and racism, and has influenced generations of historians ever since.Williams traces the rise and fall of the Atlantic slave trade through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to show how it laid the foundations of the Industrial Revolution, and how racism arose as a means of rationalising an economic decision. Most significantly, he showed how slavery was only abolished when it ceased to become financially viable, exploding the myth of emancipation as a mark of Britain's moral progress.'Its thesis is a starting point for a new generation of scholarship' New Yorker

Is there ever a legitimate reason to commit murder? Does every drug dealer in the hood have the same agenda of getting rich or dying while trying? Does murder feel better than making money to some? Does every sex offender deserve to die? In this book you will get a mixture of it all. They seem like two successful drug dealers from the hood, but money was just a tool for these two. Murder is what made them happy. They both shared a pain that made them want to murder. Nemo was fixated on killing a certain type of woman, while Rawkeisha was fixated on killing a certain type of man. This is not your average urban book. Go ahead and get ready for two high profile serial killers from hood. URBAN LIT with a twist!!!

The Epistle of James is all about Faith - real faith, living faith, active faith. Like the apostle Paul, James would have us work out our salvation with fear and trembling. This book endeavors to show just how that is done. According to James' epistle, real faith is based upon certain presuppositions. True faith finds joy in hardship. Faith brings unity in the body; it engenders self control; it benefits the individual and the world at large. Real Faith, Studies In The Epistle Of James will enable you to read the letter of James with fresh eyes and allow you to apply this misunderstood book to your walk of faith. "I am happy to commend D. Eric Williams' studies in the epistle of James. 'Real Faith' is down-to-earth, just like the epistle, and is well-suited to help the reader unpack the kind of practical help that James is known for." Douglas Wilson, Christ Church, Moscow Idaho

In the imaginary town of Magicistopia lives an eight year old little girl named Sophie Bildermann. Since Sophie and her family have moved to Magicistopia, she has had trouble making new friends at school and is often bullied by the kids in her class. Until one day she meets Buggy Bumble Bee and Chloe Ladybug.

Brock and Gabby, a young couple living in the New Orleans, Louisiana's urban housing development, also known as the projects, find themselves in a bind when Brock is charged with a murder he didn't commit. Sticking to the code of the streets by not snitching on the actual killer and unable to afford a lawyer, the two now face even tougher obstacles as Brock is without bond and facing thirty years to life. Backs against the wall, the two are forced to make sacrifices that ultimately pay off courtesy of their forfeitures.

Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants accumulated vast fortunes and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these ideas in Capitalism and Slavery, published in 1944. In a new introduction, Colin Palmer assesses the lasting impact of Williams's groundbreaking work.

Eric Williams's influential and widely debated Capitalism and Slavery, first published in 1944, was based on his previously unavailable dissertation, now in book form for the first time. The significant differences between his two seminal works allow us to reconsider questions whose importance has only increased in our current charged climate.

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 became an authority on West Indian history and founded the People's National Movement Party. This is an autobiography of the author.

Traces Peter Howard, who was to become one of The Wooden Horse escapers, from his being shot down, through his capture, and first two POW camps. This work gets into the mind of a man determined to escape his captors. It shows that for all the many schemes dreamt up, very few ever got started and of those a 'home run' was like a lottery win.