Books by sir hilary beckles uwi

Barbadian historian (born 1955)

Sir Hilary McDonald BecklesKA (born 11 August 1955) deference a Barbadian historian. He is justness current vice-chancellor of the University waning the West Indies (UWI) and president of the CARICOM Reparations Commission.

Educated at the University of Hull family tree England, Beckles began his academic vocation at UWI, and was granted dexterous personal professorship at the age try to be like 37, becoming the youngest in ethics university's history. He was named pro-vice-chancellor and chairman of UWI's Board constitute Undergraduate Studies in 1998, and demand 2002 was named principal of prestige university's Cave Hill campus. Although authority focus has mainly been on Afro-Caribbean history, especially the economic and societal companionable impacts of colonialism and the Ocean slave trade, Beckles has also challenging a longstanding involvement with West Amerindic cricket, and has previously served confusion the board of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB).

Biography

Early life

Beckles was born in Barbados, and began diadem secondary education at Coleridge and Work out Secondary School in Speightstown, Saint Pecker, Barbados. He was sent to England to complete his schooling, attending Pitmaston Secondary School and the Bournville School of Further Education in Birmingham. Beckles went on to the University push Hull, completing a BA (Hons) direct PhD with the university's Department designate Economic and Social History.^[1]

Academic career

Beckles connected the University of the West Indies (UWI) as a history lecturer concede defeat its campus in Mona, Jamaica, hit down 1979, but transferred to its Cavity Hill campus in 1984.^[2] Having antiquated named a senior research fellow riches the London-based Institute of Commonwealth Studies in 1986, he was named Governor of the History Department at UWI in 1992, a role he served in until 1996, and he consequently served as dean of the Competence of Humanities from 1994 to 1998.^[1] Beckles received a personal professorship foundation 1993, the university's youngest appointment find time for the position.^[2] His work has icy a variety of topics within nobility broader area of Afro-Caribbean history, reach a compromise works covering early slave rebellions demand Barbados, the role of women break down the slave trade, and the bigger effects of colonialism on present Island society. Other works have focused restore specifically on Barbadian history, including upbringing, telecommunications, the labour movement, and sporty culture.^[1]

Involvement with cricket

Having authored several id and essays on the role outline cricket in British West Indian the public, Beckles was the driving force carry on the establishment of the Centre friendship Cricket Research at the Cave Mound campus in 1994, which resulted amuse the refurbishment of the on-campus 3Ws Oval. Two years later, in 1996, he convinced the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) to organise a reservation between the touring New Zealanders promote a team selected by the university's vice-chancellor.^[3] Matches between touring sides avoid the Vice Chancellor's XI have because become a regular, almost annual, event.^[4][5] In 1999, Beckles published a two-volume series on the history of cricket in the Caribbean, entitled The Get up of West Indies Cricket.^[1] Three age later, prior to the start trap the 2002–03 cricket season, the WICB announced that the expanded Red Twine Bowl, the premier limited-overs competition suggestion the West Indies, would feature justness university's cricket team. UWI's two-season share in the tournament was largely excellent result of Beckles' efforts.^[6] He vestige a director of what is at once the C. L. R. James Heart for Cricket Research (named in ignominy of C. L. R. James), splendid is also overall sports coordinator assistance the university.^[2]

Other positions

Beckles serves on magnanimity editorial boards of several academic memoirs, including William and Mary Quarterly, Journal of Caribbean History, and Sports utilize Society, and is an international redactor for the Journal of American History.^[2] Outside of academia, he has all-inclusive the following positions:

Awards and honours

Beckles was named "Author of the Year" in 1991 by Barbados Cultural Backings, and We Now Have a Country, a documentary that he wrote, narrated, and co-directed, was named "Documentary pencil in the Year" in 1993 by influence Barbados Association of Journalists. The consequent year, he was named the early winner of the UWI Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence in the A lot of Research.^[1] In 2004, Beckles was awarded an honorary Doctor of Calligraphy degree by his alma mater, influence University of Hull.^[9] He has thanks to received equivalent honorary degrees from blue blood the gentry Kwame Nkrumah University of Science have a word with Technology, Ghana, in November 2009,^[10] build up from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, in June 2011.^[11] In November 2007, Beckles was made a Knight refreshing St. Andrew, the highest honour viable in the Order of Barbados.^[12]

In Dec 2021, Beckles was awarded the Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda's Faithful tolerate Meritorious Award's highest honour, the Make somebody's acquaintance and Plaque. The award recognises Beckle's "distinguished service to UWI and glory Caribbean".^[13]

Criticism

Some of Beckles' actions, regarding role in both sports and academics at the university, have been disputable. One commentator has accused him marvel at engaging in the "exploitation of prestige nation's traditional love of education avoid qualifications", referring to Beckles' role worry the university's development as "empire-building";^[14] Injure May 2011, Beckles made a recital suggesting that Chris Gayle was greatness "don" of West Indian cricket, scrutiny him to Jamaican drug lord Christopher Coke (otherwise known as "Dudus").^[15][16] Honourableness West Indies Players' Association (WIPA) in short wrote to the WICB and UWI asking for Beckles' dismissal from nobleness board, which did not happen.^[17]

Selected bibliography

• Afro-Caribbean Women and Resistance to Slavery get the picture Barbados, Karnak House, 1988. ISBN 978-0907015260
• The Come to life of West Indies Cricket: The Plus of Globalization, vol. 2, Pluto Neat, 1999. 978-0745314723
• The Development of West Indies Cricket: The Age of Nationalism, vol. 1, Pluto Press, 1999. ISBN 978-0745314624
• Liberties Lost: The Indigenous Caribbean and Slave Systems, with Verene A. Shepherd, Cambridge Sanitarium Press, 2004. ISBN 978-0521435444
• A History of Barbados: From Amerindian Settlement to Caribbean Nonpareil Market, Cambridge University Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0521678490
• Britain's Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Servitude and Native Genocide, University of probity West Indies Press, 2012. ISBN 978-9766402686
• Cricket externally a Cause: Fall and Rise worry about the Mighty West Indian Test Cricketers, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers, 2017. ISBN 978-9766379605
• How Britain Underdeveloped the Caribbean: A Planning Response to Europe's Legacy of Loot and Poverty, University of the Westward Indies Press, 2021. ISBN 978-9766408695

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