"We lived according to the tenets of Matthew Arnold" : colonial victorianism and the creative realism of the young C. L. R. James -- "Red Nelson" : the English working class and the making of C. L. R. James -- "Imperialism must be destroyed" : C. L. R. James, race, and revolutionary politics -- "The humbler type of cricket scribe" : C. L. R. James on sport, culture, and society -- "There is no drama like the drama of history" : the Black Jacobins, Toussaint Louverture, and the Haitian revolution -- "To exploit a larger world to conquer" : C. L. R. James's intellectual conquest of imperial Britain.