The deserted island, 1498-1783
Enter the Africans and the French, 1783-97
The British take over, 1797-1812
The experimental colony, 1812-38
The ordeal of free labour and the colonial economy, 1838-1900
The development of Creole society, 1838-1938
Politics in a crown colony, 1838-1914
Constitutional reform and the labour movements, 1917-36
The emergence of modern Trinidad, 1936-50
Oil and the twentieth-century economy, 1900-62