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Beyond a Boundary 50th Anniversary Edition (The C. L. R. James Archives)

C. L. R. James

Derek Walcott This new edition of C. L. R. James's classic

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The Rest Is History

Beyond a Boundary was cited as James's autobiography where he reflected on the moral framework derived from school stories.

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In his autobiography, Beyond a Boundary, he talks about Thomas Arnold's legacy.

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Beyond a Boundary was cited as James's autobiography where he reflected on the moral framework derived from school stories.

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In his autobiography, Beyond a Boundary, he talks about Thomas Arnold's legacy.

Behind the Bastards

An iconic read, it explores the author's political development and how he saw himself constituted as a colonial subject through his experiences playing cricket.

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I think he explains I think if people could read it even if they don't like cricket, I'm not a big cricket person. But it's certainly one of the best sports books I've read and maybe one of the best b...

— Episode: It Could Happen Here Weekly 69

Episode: It Could Happen Here Weekly 69

An iconic read, it explores the author's political development and how he saw himself constituted as a colonial subject through his experiences playing cricket.

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I think he explains I think if people could read it even if they don't like cricket, I'm not a big cricket person. But it's certainly one of the best sports books I've read and maybe one of the best books.

Yeah, I think he does a really good job of explaining it.

If you don't want to read about cricket, he also talks about this in The Krumah and the Ghana Revolution.

Episode: It Could Happen Here Weekly 213

He praised it as a great cricket book, the only one of its kind he'd ever enjoyed, and said it was foundational to his own dissertation work.

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C LR James's book trying to remember it's called Beyond a Boundary or Beyond the Boundary ... it's a great book, it's the only book about cricket that I've ever read ... and that's the only one that I've ever enjoyed, not a big cricket appreciate it but that book was foundational to how I approached my dissertation.

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