In my exposure to the book years ago I thought it covered the basic ground envisaged by Eric Williams. It was not as 'finely tuned' as two other substantial Williams works that I read much more closely as University of the West Indies listed course reading. However, it served one of the purposes for which it was written - to meet the recording gap (as political independence approached in 1962) - and and otherwise it remains a valuable source on T&T for the general reader and the academy.
- Paul E. Martin (PhD), Kingston, JA.
