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C. L. R. James (1901–1989), a Trinidadian historian, political activist, and writer, is the author of The Black Jacobins, an influential study of the Haitian Revolution. He is also the author of The Life of Captain Cipriani, Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History, and Beyond a Boundary, all also published by Duke University Press. Christian Høgsbjerg is a historian and works for Leeds University Centre f...

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Obra modlica en la que una exhaustiva investigacin, propia de la historiografa britnica, se enriquece con la visin de conjunto propia de la ficcin novelesca para narrar aquella nica vez en la historia en que los esclavos negros se liberaron por s solos, intentando implantar los ideales ilustrados y combatiendo a Napolen. Su protagonista, Toussaint L Ouverture, est tratado como un personaje de novela. Publicado en 1938, este es ya un clsico cuy...

Portraying C. L. R. James as a leading figure in the independence movement in the West Indies and in the black and working-class movements in both Britain and the United States, this volume provides an extensive introduction to James's life and thought before presenting two critical works that illustrate the tremendous breadth and depth of his worldview. Both long-out-of-print pamphlets display James's contributions to Marxist and revolutionar...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.