This biography of Marcus Garvey ends with two long essays about his philosophy and legacy, but I really wish it would’ve started with them, because Cronon is (while writing very well, and presenting a strong case) clearly coming at Garvey from a fairly critical angle, and that context would have helped while reading the earlier parts of the book.
This historical treatise has a lot of notoriety but I found it unnecessarily dense, and ultimately flawed, in that its focus on states and state power ignores a related discussion of capitalist power, such that altho there is a useful perspective to glean here about how a drive for social legibility can transform a society, I wouldn't recommend the book overall.
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