Talk:Eric Williams

message: The discount of Eric Williams' proposition needs adequate substantiation. The scholars who are able to disprove Eric Williams' claims need to put up or shut up.
srr04
I was of the impression that this was the consensus view; it was taken as fact by History lecturers at the University of the West Indies (Trinidad campus) when I was an undergrad there ~15 years ago.  I would like to see some of the sources so I can check them out myself. Guettarda 21:15, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Substantiation missing

message: I removed :Category:Pan-Africanism - I don't think Williams fits that description - source?  Guettarda 22:54, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Black Power was a revolt against Williams.  Guettarda 03:50, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: wow i didnt know that--HalaTruth(ሀላካሕ) 04:50, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pan Africanist? 

message: In a sense he was a Pan Africanist, but a wayward one. He did ascribe to the principles that most Pan Africanists did: Nationalism, Internationalism, Populism,(the bandung</I> solidatrity), the "third-way" politics,  Post-colonial Liberalism and so on. However, the tricky nature of West-Indian society was to see him nearly abandoned thoses principles later in his political carrer to the end of his life.
--Ishango 04:24, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eric williams the Post-pan Africanist

message: I've added a link to the sections of "References" and "External Links". This is a link to the book, Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams. This is an excellent source cited by scholars over the years, and some of it can be read on Google books for freeEbanony (talk) 08:21, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 

message: The whole entry seems to concentrate on the political and academic aspects of his life, which is fair enough. Why, however, is there no reference to his personal life?Garstonboy (talk) 21:05, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eric Williams: Personal Life 

message: Or is this cultural assumption? A quick search reveals that his ideologies were much atheist and Marxist and not nearly as much Anglican.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.144.151.76 (talk) 05:58, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Are you sure Williams was an Anglican? 

message: the critique section is pure OR, seems like one authors opinion. it should be removed or referenced in the general body of the article. It is also in a very strange place structurally--Halqh حَلَقَة הלכהሐላቃህ (talk) 06:46, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notice to remove Critique OR 

message: I have tried to straighten out the rather confused account of EW's career at Oxford (inter alia, a previous editor seems to have assumed EW's D.Phil. degree to have been a degree in philosophy --which is no more the case than for the typical Ph.D.).  I also tried to tone down a little the POV account of the appearance of "Capitalism and Slavery".  Discussion of this book (and of EW's scholarly work more broadly) needs more nuance than it currently receives, and the attention of an editor who is more up-to-date than I am on the relevant scholarly literature in this field, and who is also ready and able to put aside ideological axe-grinding in pursuit of Wikipedia's NPOV standard. Nandt1 (talk) 17:33, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Needs more work

message: why was an article created for Williams book 'Capitalism and Slavery', and subsequently redirected back to this article? This would make sense if the book was not so significant or if Williams had achieved little else, and mostly of relevance to him being the author of this book. For the history of slavery and for race theory this book was of fundamental importance and deserves its own article to distinguish it from Williams' political activities.158.223.168.132 (talk) 12:48, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Capitalism and Slavery Redirect

message: Substituted at 14:37, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: In the infobox listing Williams' personal information his name is given as Abhinav Nambiar. This name does not appear anywhere else on the page, or indeed on Wikipedia at all as far as I can tell. Is there any reason for Williams being so-called or is this someone's joke? CharlesMartel (talk) 01:17, 16 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Abhinav Nambiar

message: Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified one external link on Eric Williams. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20090302074605/http://www.mainlib.uwi.tt/divisions/wi/collsp/ericwilliams/ericwilliams.htm to http://www.mainlib.uwi.tt/divisions/wi/collsp/ericwilliams/ericwilliams.htm
When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.
Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 11:34, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified