Rediscovering Eric Williams: The Intellectual History of Capitalism and Slavery

BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITYFINE ARTS, ROOM 258

THE FERNAND BRAUDEL CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF ECONOMIES, HISTORICAL SYSTEMS, AND CIVILIZATIONS AT BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY PRESENTS

1:00 p.m. — Session I

William A. Darity (Duke University)“Eric Williams: From the Dissertation to Capitalism and Slavery”

Colin A. Palmer (Princeton University)“Eric Williams and the Genesis of the Anti-Federation Movement in Jamaica”

3:00 p.m. — Session II

David B. Ryden (University of Houston-Downtown)“Eric Williams and His Three Faces of Planter Decline”

Anthony E. Kaye (Pennsylvania State University)“In the Workshop of Eric Williams: The Economic Aspect of British Abolition and the Politics of Slavery in the United States”

CO-SPONSORED BYThe Office of the Dean,

Graduate School; the Office of the Dean, Harpur College; with

the departments of Anthropology, History and Sociology

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