Table of Contents

I. The Problematic.- I: Some Questions of Theory.- II. The Social Formation and its Contradictions.- III. The Process of Determination.- II: Social Classes: The Makers of History.- IV. ‘Intelligent and Respectable People’: the Capitalist and Intermediate Classes.- V. ‘…That Oldest and Ablest of Agitators…’: the Peasants and Workers.- VI. Ethiopia Stretches Forth Her Hands.- III: Making History.- VII. The Revolt of the Respectable.- VIII. Quashee and Anancy.- IX. Quashee Stands Up.- X. ‘…A Disgrace to the British Empire Sir’: Reactions to the Rebellion.- XI. Trade Unionists, Marxists and Nationalists.- XII. The Struggle Continues.- XIII. Insurance Against Disorder.- XIV. A Recapitulation.