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  • The Black Jacobins

    Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

    by C.L.R. James ...
    **A powerful and impassioned historical account of the largest successful revolt by enslaved people in history: the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1803“One of the seminal texts about the history of slavery and abolition.... Provocative and empowering.” —The New York Times Book Review**The Black Jacobins, by Trinidadian historian C. L. R. James, was the first major analysis of the uprising that began ... Read more

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution

    by C. L. R. James ...
    Series series The C. L. R. James Archives
    In this new edition of Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution, C. L. R. James tells the history of the socialist revolution led by Kwame Nkrumah, the first president and prime minister of Ghana. Although James wrote it in the immediate post-independence period around 1958, he did not publish it until nearly twenty years later, when he added a series of his own letters, speeches, and articles from the ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Toussaint Louverture

    The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History

    by C.L.R. James, Nic Watts, Sakina Karimjee ...
    An extraordinary graphic novel of a groundbreaking playWhen C.L.R. James's Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History opened in London featuring Paul Robeson in 1936, it was the first time black actors starred on a British stage in a play written by a black playwright. But after this extraordinary play ended its run, the script was lost for almost 70 years. Then ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • World Revolution, 1917–1936

    The Rise and Fall of the Communist International

    by C. L. R. James ...
    Series series The C. L. R. James Archives
    Originally published in 1937, C. L. R. James's World Revolution is a pioneering Marxist analysis of the history of revolutions during the interwar period and of the fundamental conflict between Trotsky and Stalin. James, who was a leading Trotskyist activist in Britain, outlines Russia's transition from Communist revolution to a Stalinist totalitarian state bureaucracy. He also provides an account ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Mariners, Renegades and Castaways

    The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In

    by C. L. R. James ...
    A new edition of a major work of literary and cultural criticism restores C. L. R. James’s reflections about Moby Dick and political persecution.Political theorist and cultural critic, novelist, and cricket enthusiast, C. L. R. James (1901–89) was a brilliant polymath who was described by Edward Said as “a centrally important twentieth-century figure.” Through such landmark works as The Black ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • State Capitalism and World Revolution

    by C.L.R. James, Raya Dunayevskaya, Grace Lee Boggs, Martin Glaberman ...
    Series series The Charles H. Kerr Library
    Over sixty years ago, C.L.R. James and a small circle of collaborators making up the radical left Johnson-Forest Tendency reached the conclusion that there was no true socialist society existing anywhere in the world. Written in collaboration with Raya Dunayevskaya and Grace Lee Boggs, this is another pioneering critique of Lenin and Trotsky, and reclamation of Marx, from the West Indian scholar ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • New Notion: Two Works by C.L.R. James, A

    "Every Cook Can Govern" and "The Invading Socialist Society"

    by C.L.R. James ...
    C.L.R. James was a leading figure in the independence movement in the West Indies, and the black and working-class movements in both Britain and the United States. As a major contributor to Marxist and revolutionary theory, his project was to discover, document, and elaborate the aspects of working-class activity that constitute the revolution in today’s world. In this volume, Noel Ignatiev, ... Read more

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  • Modern Politics

    by C.L.R. James ...
    “Marxists envisage a total change in the basic structure of human relations. With that change our problems will not be solved overnight, but we will be able to tackle them with confidence. Such are the difficulties, contradictions, and antagonisms; and in the solution of them society moves forward and men and women feel they have a role in the development of their social surroundings. It is in ... Read more

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  • The Life of Captain Cipriani

    An Account of British Government in the West Indies, with the pamphlet The Case for West-Indian Self Government

    by C. L. R. James ...
    Series series The C. L. R. James Archives
    The Life of Captain Cipriani (1932) is the earliest full-length work of nonfiction by the Trinidadian writer C. L. R. James, one of the most significant historians and Marxist theorists of the twentieth century. It is partly based on James's interviews with Arthur Andrew Cipriani (1875–1945). As a captain with the British West Indies Regiment during the First World War, Cipriani was greatly ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Trinidad Noir: The Classics

    by Earl Lovelace, Robert Antoni, C.L.R. James, Derek Walcott, Samuel Selvon, Eric Roach, V.S. Naipaul, Harold Sonny Ladoo, Michael Anthony0, Willi Chen1, Elizabeth Nunez2, Ismith Khan3, Lawrence Scott4, Wayne Brown5, Jennifer Rahim6, Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw7, Sharon Millar8, Barbara Jenkins9, Shani Mootoo0 ...
    Series series Akashic Noir
    "To travel through the nineteen works of poetry and prose in this remarkable anthology is to experience Trinidad and Tobago through a kaleidoscopic lens. The writings are grouped into four historically significant periods ('Leaving Colonialism,' 'Facing Independence,' 'Looking In,' and 'Losing Control'). It's an effective construct; the reader experiences island culture and history as a part of ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • History of Pan-African Revolt

    by C.L.R. James ...
    Series series The Charles H. Kerr Library
    Originally published in England in 1938 (the same year as his magnum opus The Black Jacobins) and expanded in 1969, this work remains the classic account of global black resistance. Robin D.G. Kelley’s substantial introduction contextualizes the work in the history and ferment of the times, and explores its ongoing relevance today.“A History of Pan-African Revolt is one of those rare books that ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Black Jacobins

    Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

    by C.L.R. James ...
    Narrated by Ron Butler ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 22 min

    A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World.This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1794–1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille but became the model for the Third World liberation movements from Africa to Cuba. It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook