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The modern Caribbeaneconomy was invented, structured and managed by European states for onepurpose: to achieve maximum wealth extraction to fuel and sustain theirnational financial, commercial and industrial transformation." So begins How Britain Underdeveloped the Caribbean: AReparation Response to Europe's Legacy of Plunder and Poverty as HilaryMcD. Beckles continues the groundbreaking work he began in Britain's Black Debt: Reparations for C...

At the turn of the 21st century, West Indies were knocked from the pinnacle of Test cricket to the basement. The collapse from "awesome to awful” is considered a mystery in the annals of modern sport. There is rage as experts seek reasons for the ruin. Professor Hilary Beckles measures the temperature of inflamed Caribbean emotions and assesses the turbulence caused by new global policy promotions.

Since the mid-nineteenth-century abolition of slavery, the call for reparations for the crime of African enslavement and native genocide has been growing. In the Caribbean, grassroots and official voices now constitute a regional reparations movement. While it remains a fractured, contentious and divisive call, it generates considerable public interest, especially within sections of the community that are concerned with issues of social justic...

Written by a leading economic historian of the region, a seasoned activist in the wider movement for social justice and advocacy of historical truth, Britain's Black Debt looks at the origins and development of reparations as a regional and international process. Weaving together detailed historical data on Caribbean slavery and the transatlantic slave trade with legal principles and the politics of postcolonialism, the author sets out a solid...

In this second edition, Hilary Beckles updates the text to reflect the considerable number of writings recently published on Barbados.

The essays in this volume are the revised texts of an eight-part public lecture series on West Indian cricket history and culture organized by the Centre for Cricket Research at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill. An introductory essay by the editor, an interview with Viv Richards and two commentaries are also included. "Together they represent a tribute to Viv, as well as a substantial contribution to the historiography of West Indi...

The Transatlantic Trade in Africans has no equal in the annals of modern history in terms of the scope and depth of suffering experienced by its victims. Hilary Beckles and Verene Shepherd, two of the Caribbean's most distinguished historians, make extensive use of research by scholars from Europe, Africa and the Americas to describe the trade and analyse its impact on African, European and Caribbean societies.

A Twenty-First Century Manifesto: The University of the West Indies and beyond.

Rihanna is arguably the most commercially successful Caribbean artist in history. She is Barbadian and has been unwavering in publicly articulating her national and regional belonging. Still, there have been varied responses to Rihanna's ascendancy, among both Barbadians and the wider Caribbean community. The responses reveal as much about our own national and regional anxieties as they do about the artist herself. The boundary-transgressing, ...

In this remarkable exploration of the brutal course of Barbados's history, Hilary McD. Beckles details the systematic barbarism of the British colonial project. Trade in enslaved Africans was not new in the Americas in the seventeenth century - the Portuguese and Spanish had commercialized chattel slavery in Brazil and Cuba in the 1500s - but in Barbados, the practice of slavery reached its apotheosis.

The West Indies Cricket Team, formed in 1884, made its first overseas tour to Canada and United States. The first match was played against the Montreal Cricket Club, 16-17 August 1886. This book speaks to the Canadian and American beginning of the West Indian cricket culture that emerged a century later as a powerful performance force of the game.

An essential book for students and teachers written by two of the Caribbean's leading historians.

Liberties Lost and Freedoms Won have been written by two of the Caribbean's leading historians, Professor Hilary Beckles and Professor Verene Shepherd.