Author photo. Cyril Lionel Robert James (1901-1989) 1989 photograph (<a href="http://www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/index.htm">CLR James Internet Archive</a>)

Cyril Lionel Robert James (1901-1989) 1989 photograph (CLR James Internet Archive)

C. L. R. James (1901–1989)

Author of The Black Jacobins

Includes the names: C L R James, C.L.R. James, C.L.R. James, Cyril L. James, Cyril Lionel Robert James

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Also wrote under the pseudonym J.R. Johnson.

Works by C. L. R. James

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The Black Jacobins 507 copies, 10 reviews
Beyond a Boundary 213 copies, 5 reviews
Mariners, Renegades and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the… 61 copies, 2 reviews
The C.L.R. James Reader 42 copies
American Civilization 35 copies
Minty Alley 29 copies, 1 review
A History Of Pan-African Revolt (Revolutionary Classics) 28 copies
State Capitalism & World Revolution 25 copies
Letters from London 22 copies, 1 review
You Don't Play With Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James 21 copies
Facing Reality 20 copies
World Revolution, 1917-1936: The Rise and Fall of the Communist… 17 copies
Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution 17 copies
Notes on Dialectics 14 copies

C.L.R. James on the Negro Question 14 copies

Modern Politics 13 copies

Spheres of existence: Selected writings 9 copies

Every cook can govern: A study of democracy in ancient Greece 9 copies

Cricket 9 copies

The Invading Socialist Society 9 copies

At the Rendezvous of Victory 8 copies

Future in the Present: Selected Writings of C.L.R. James 8 copies

A Majestic Innings: Writings on Cricket 8 copies

Marxism for Our Times: C.L.R. James on Revolutionary Organization 7 copies, 1 review

A New Notion: Two Works by C. L. R. James: "Every Cook Can Govern" and… 7 copies

Fighting Racism in World War II 6 copies

Marxism and the intellectuals 5 copies

History of Negro Revolt 5 copies

The Nobbie Stories for Children and Adults 4 copies

Special Delivery: The Letters of C.L.R. James to Constance Webb, 1939-1948 4 copies

Party politics in the West Indies 4 copies, 1 review

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Visions of History (Contributor) 30 copies

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James, C. L. R.

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James, Cyril Lionel Robert

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Trinidad and Tobago

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Birthplace

Trinidad and Tobago

Place of death

London, England, UK

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London, England, UK

Nelson, Lancashire, England, UK

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

Education

Queen's Royal College, Port of Spain, Trinidad

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International African Service Bureau

Independent Labour Party

Revolutionary Socialist League

Workers Party (U.S.)

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