Acknowledgments  ix

Abbreviations  xi

Introduction. Revolutionaries, Artists, and Wicket-Keepers: C. L. R. James's Place in History  1

1. We Lived According to the Tenets of Matthew Arnold: Colonial Victorianism and the Creative Realism of the Young C. L. R. James  17

2. Red Nelson: The English Working Class and the Making of C. L. R. James  38

3. Imperialism Must Be Destroyed: C. L. R. James, Race, and Revolutionary Politics  65

4. The Humbler Type of Cricket Scribe: C. L. R. James on Sport, Culture, and Society  125

5. There Is No Drama Like the Drama of History: The Black Jacobins, Toussaint Louverture, and the Haitian Revolution  158

Conclusion. To Exploit a Larger World to Conquer: C. L. R. James's Intellectual Conquest of Imperial Britain  199

Notes  217

Bibliography  259

Index  283

"Christian Høgsbjerg's book is going to make a very significant impact on the community of C. L. R. James scholars and beyond. Høgsbjerg has thoroughly combed the key archival sources to generate a comprehensive, lively, and insightful portrait of James's intellectual and political life during his first sojourn in Britain. In doing so, he has filled in many key details and fleshed out many important events in James's life in Britain."—Paget Henry, coeditor of C. L. R. James's Carribbean

"When C. L. R. James left Trinidad for England in 1932, it was a kind of homecoming: A connoisseur of cricket, immersed in the works of Shakespeare and Thackeray almost from birth, James was the consummate Afro-Saxon intellectual long before setting foot in London. In C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain, Christian Høgsbjerg follows him into the meeting halls and radical bookstores, the cricket grounds and bohemian haunts, where this displaced 'Victorian with the rebel seed' emerged as a leading figure in the Trotskyist and Pan-Africanist movements. The fusion of insight with command of factual detail sets the new standard by which serious work on C. L. R. James must be judged."—Scott McLemee, editor of C. L. R. James on the "Negro Question"

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