Cover of How Britain Underdeveloped the Caribbean by Hilary McD. Beckles
Cover of How Britain Underdeveloped the Caribbean by Hilary McD. Beckles

How Britain Underdeveloped the Caribbean — Hilary McD. Beckles

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Hilary McD. Beckles — How Britain Underdeveloped the Caribbean: A Reparation Response to Europe's Legacy of Plunder and Poverty

Paperback. Condition: New.

Taking its title from Walter Rodney’s classic How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, historian Sir Hilary Beckles sets out how centuries of slavery and colonial rule drained the Caribbean, leaving a legacy of poverty, public-health crises and structural debt that persists today. Written by the chair of the CARICOM Reparations Commission, it is both a sweeping economic history and a clear, evidence-led case for reparatory justice.

Part of the Black Curatorial reading room — books from our Frieze London 2026 presentation and the wider Caribbean and Black British canon. Enquiries: aliyah@blackcuratorial.co

Hilary McD. Beckles — How Britain Underdeveloped the Caribbean: A Reparation Response to Europe's Legacy of Plunder and Poverty

Paperback. Condition: New.

Taking its title from Walter Rodney’s classic How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, historian Sir Hilary Beckles sets out how centuries of slavery and colonial rule drained the Caribbean, leaving a legacy of poverty, public-health crises and structural debt that persists today. Written by the chair of the CARICOM Reparations Commission, it is both a sweeping economic history and a clear, evidence-led case for reparatory justice.

Part of the Black Curatorial reading room — books from our Frieze London 2026 presentation and the wider Caribbean and Black British canon. Enquiries: aliyah@blackcuratorial.co