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Black Jacobins

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Zusatztext "Brilliantly conceived and executed...The absorbing narrative never departs from its rigid faithfulness to method and documentation." -- Books "Mr. James is not afraid to touch his pen with the flame of ardent personal feeling -- a sense of justice! love of freedom! admiration for heroism! hatred for tyranny -- and his detailed! richly documented and dramatically written book holds a deep and lasting interest." -- The New York Times Informationen zum Autor C. L. R. JAMES (1901-1989) was a Trinidadian-born historian, literary critic, and philosopher, and a leader of the pan-African movement. A prodigious and eclectic intellectual, he debated Marcus Garvey in England, confronted Trotsky in Mexico, and influenced leaders of African revolutions including Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana. He is perhaps best remembered for his 1938 masterwork, The Black Jacobins , the first major analysis of the Haitian Revolution in the context of the French Revolution. In addition to his works of history and his political activism, he was known for sports writing, playwriting, and fiction; his novel  Minty Alley , written in 1927, was the first by a Black person from the West Indies to be published in Britain and his 1963 book,  Beyond a Boundary , has been hailed as the best book on cricket ever written. Klappentext 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 master toward slave was commonplace and ingeniously refined. And it is the story of a barely literate slave named Toussaint L'Ouverture, who led the black people of San Domingo in a successful struggle against successive invasions by overwhelming French, Spanish, and English forces and in the process helped form the first independent nation in the Caribbean. Zusammenfassung 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 in the wake of the storming of the Bastille in France and became the model for liberation movements from Africa to Cuba. It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of plantation owners toward enslaved people was horrifyingly severe. And it is the story of a charismatic and barely literate enslaved person named Toussaint L’Ouverture, who successfully led the Black people of San Domingo against successive invasions by overwhelming French, Spanish, and English forces—and in the process helped form the first independent post-colonial nation in the Caribbean. With a new introduction (2023) by Professor David Scott....

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Authors C. L. R. James, C L R James, C. L. R. James, C.L.R. James, Cyril James, Cyril Lionel Robert James, David Scott Scott
Publisher Vintage USA
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 23.10.1989
 
EAN 9780679724674
ISBN 978-0-679-72467-4
No. of pages 448
Dimensions 135 mm x 205 mm x 20 mm
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries
Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

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