A History of Pan-African Revolt [Paperback]

Originally published in England in 1938 and expanded in 1969, this work remains the classic account of global Black resistance. This concise, accessible history of revolts by African peoples worldwide explores the wide range of methods used by Africans to resist oppression and the negative effects of imperialism and colonization as viewed in the 20th century. Written from a radical perspective with a substantial new introduction that contextualizes the work in the ferment of the times,A History of Pan-African Revoltis essential to understanding liberation movements in Africa and the diaspora and continues to reveal new insights, lessons, and visions to successive generations.

Kudos for reissuing C. L. R. James's pioneering work on Black resistance. Many brilliant embryonic ideas articulated inA History of Pan-African Revolttwenty years later became the way to study Black social movements. Robin Kelley's introduction superbly situates James and his thought in the world of Pan-African and Marxist intellectuals.   —Sundiata Cha-Jua, associate professor in the Department of History, University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign

A mine of ideas advancing far ahead of its time.   —Walter Rodney, historian, political activist, and author,How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

C. L. R. James has arguably had a greater influence on the underlying thinking of independence movements in the West Indies and Africa than any living man.   —Sunday Times

When one looks back over the last twenty years to those men who were most far-sighted, who first began to tease out the muddle of ideology in our times, who were at the same time Marxists with a hard theoretical basis, and close students of society, humanists with a tremendous response to and understanding of human culture, Comrade James is one of the first one thinks of.   —El,