C.L.R. James

History of the Haitian Revolution led by Toussaint L'Ouverture, the only successful slave revolt that led to the founding of an independent state.

Memoir combining cricket, colonial politics, and Caribbean identity; 'What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?'

Study of Melville's Moby Dick as allegory for American totalitarianism, written while James was detained on Ellis Island.

James's engagement with Hegel's dialectics and their application to revolutionary politics.