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. ' -.....-,_... . - ~ - .... .. "' . - - ,# • i .- . '·. ~ .! •. ' - • ; • • - F:' . . ~ .....;. .. ~ ' .. - ~ ., .. ' .... - ~ \ l C.L.R. James in America in the 1940s. I \ \ AMERICAN CIVILIZATION BY C.L.R. JAMES EDITED AND INTRODUCED BY ANNA GRIMSHAW AND KEITH HART WITH AN AFTERWORD BY ROBERT A. HILL 113 BLACl<WELL Cambridge MA &-Oxford UK l - Copyright© The Estate of the late C.L.R. James, 1993; Introduction copyright© Anna Grimshaw and Keith Hart, 1993; Afterword copyright © Robert A. Hill, 1993 First published 1993 Blackwell Publishers 238 Main Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA 108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 lJF, UK All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. Library of Congress and British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A OP record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 0-631-18908-4 ISBN 0-631-18909-2 (pbk.) Typeset by Jim Murray of Cultural CorrespondenceN, ew York Printed in the United States of America \ " ... my ultimate aim, and my book on Melville is merely a preparation for it, is to write a study of American civilization." C.L.R. James Mariners, Renegadesa nd Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In I 1 CONTENTS Acknowledgments IX American Civilization: An Introduction by Anna Grimshaw and Keith Hart l Preface 26 Introductory 27 l [Individuality 1776-1876] 40 2 The American Intellectuals of the Nineteenth Century 50 3 1876-1919: The New Individualism 99 4 Freedom Today 106 5 [Popular Arts and Modem Society] 118 6 The Struggle for Happiness 166 7 [Negroes, Women and the Intellectuals] 199 [8] The Transition 261 Conclusions 272 References 279 Appendix: The Americanization of Bolshevism (1944) 283 Literary Executor's Afterword by Robert A. Hill 293 Notes 367 Index of Names 377 [ ] Untitled in the original Acknowledgments The editors would like to thank Peter Clarke, Jeremy McBride, Graham McCann, Andrew McLaughlin, and Alison Rooper for their friendship and support. We are greatly indebted to Simon Prosser for insuring that C.L.R. 's masterpiece made it into print at last. Jim Murray's contribution to its publication goes far beyond what can be acknowledged here. Every effort has been made to trace all copyright holders, but if any has · been inadvertently overlooked, the editors and publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. Anna Grimshaw and Keith Hart I
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