{"id":368525,"date":"2025-06-18T09:49:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T08:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanoorschot.nl\/?post_type=oorschot_writer&#038;p=368525"},"modified":"2025-06-18T09:49:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T08:49:40","slug":"eric-williams","status":"publish","type":"oorschot_writer","link":"https:\/\/www.vanoorschot.nl\/en\/writers\/eric-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Eric Williams (1911\u20131981) was historicus en politicus. Hij studeerde cum laude af aan de Universiteit van Oxford. In 1944 publiceerde hij <em>Capitalism and Slavery<\/em>, een bewerking van zijn proefschrift. Williams richtte in de jaren vijftig de eerste Trinidadiaanse politieke partij op die openlijk naar onafhankelijkheid streefde. Hij was, van 1962 tot zijn dood, de eerste minister-president van het onafhankelijke Trinidad en Tobago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Williams (1911\u20131981) was historicus en politicus. 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Hij was, van 1962 tot zijn dood, de eerste&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vanoorschot.nl\/en\/writers\/eric-williams\/\">Lees verder <span class=\"read-more-arrow\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":368526,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-368525","oorschot_writer","type-oorschot_writer","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Eric Williams &#183; Uitgeverij Van Oorschot<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vanoorschot.nl\/en\/writers\/eric-williams\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Eric Williams &#183; Uitgeverij Van Oorschot\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Eric Williams (1911\u20131981) was historicus en politicus. 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