Produktinformasjon
, Historian, revolutionary and cricket writer, CLR James was one of the truly radical voices of the twentieth century. Born in Trinidad in the final days of the Victorian era, he debated with Trotsky, played cricket with Constantine, was published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf, inspired Kwame Nkrumah, and was a profound influence on the British Black Power movement.<BR/><BR/> And yet by the late 1970s, CLR James was all but forgotten. The books he had written over the past half century were nearly all out of print. There were a few circles in which his name rang a bell: serious students of Black history; obsessive cricket fans. But that was it.<BR/><BR/> When he died in Brixton in 1989, CLR James was internationally famous - lauded as the greatest of Black British intellectuals: the 'Black Plato', according to <I>The Times</I>.<BR/><BR/> The ideas he put forward in his own time - of the importance of identity alongside class, of rebellion coming from below, of the
Pris og prishistorikk
Akkurat nå er 200.38,- den billigste prisen
for CLR James av John L Williams blant
2 butikker hos Prisradar.
Sjekk også vår topp 5-rangering av beste historie og dokumentar
for å være
sikker på at du gjør det beste kjøpet.