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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Libertarian Anarchy
Book SynopsisPresents a perspective on political philosophy, arguing against the conventional political philosophy pieties and defending a specific political position, which is identified as libertarian anarchy. This book includes a history of the concept of anarchy, and an examination of the possibility of anarchic societies.Trade Review‘In Libertarian Anarchy Gerard Casey presents a modern, clear and compelling case for anarcho-capitalism. Any lover of human freedom should read this book that very probably will set the agenda of the philosophical and political discussions of the next decades.' -- Jesús Huerta de Soto, Professor of Political Economy at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain‘Gerard Casey has written a truly astonishing book, one that relentlessly dismantles some of the most deeply embedded presuppositions in political philosophy. From now on, this will be the first book I use to persuade someone who insists on the vast benefits the state provides. A lasting and vastly significant addition to the literature.' -- Thomas Woods, Senior Fellow at Ludwig von Mises Institute, USA and New York Times bestselling authorCasey does an admirable job of representing the philosophical case for libertarian anarchism. -- Alex Sager * Marx & Philosophy Review of Books *Table of Contents1. Death and Taxes: Liberty under attack; 2. Forms of anarchism: Liberty regained; 3. Law without Orders; 4. Why hasn't it been done before?; 5. Making the world safe from democracy; 6. Constitutions of no authority; Further Reading; Index.
£24.99
Black Rose Books The Anarchist Papers
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PublicAffairs,U.S. A for Anonymous (Graphic novel): How a Mysterious
Book SynopsisA for Anonymous shows how a leaderless band of volunteers successfully used hacktivism to fight for the underdog, embarrass their rich and powerful targets-from Sony and Paypal to the Church of Scientology and Ferguson Police Department-all in the name of freedom of speech and information. Their exploits blurred the distinction between "online" and "reality," and help shape our contemporary world.
£12.34
Autonomedia Auroras Of The Zapatistas: Midnight Notes
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£13.49
Autonomedia Artpolitik: Social Anarchist Aesthetics in an Age
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Autonomedia A Little Philosophical Lexicon Of Anarchism From
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£18.00
PM Press Anthropology, Ecology, And Anarchism: A Brian
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£21.59
PM Press The Floodgates Of Anarchy
Book SynopsisAn impassioned discussion on the virtues of true anarchism by two of its leading exponenents.
£14.39
PM Press Cointelshow: A Patriot Act
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£8.07
PM Press Damned Fools In Utopia
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£19.79
PM Press Who's Afraid Of The Black Blocs?: Anarchy in
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Feral House,U.S. Why Hope?: The Stand Against Civilization
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£12.34
PM Press Anarchists Never Surrender: Essays, Polemics and
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£17.09
PM Press No Gods, No Masters, No Peripheries: Global
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£22.94
PM Press The Bonnot Gang: The Story of the French
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£16.19
PM Press What Is Anarchism?: An Introduction, 2nd Ed.
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£13.49
PM Press Anarchist Education And The Modern School: A
Book SynopsisWas Ferrer a ferocious revolutionary, an ardently nonviolent pedagogue, or something else entirely?
£19.54
PM Press Anarchist Cuba: Countercultural Politics in the
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£21.59
PM Press The Impossible Community: Realizing Communitarian
Book SynopsisA highly readable reformulation of social and political theories with the goal of developing new anarchist solutions.
£21.59
PM Press Pangayaw And Decolonizing Resistance: Anarchism
Book SynopsisA comprehensive work offering a new paradigm for an anarchism rooted in decolonisation.
£13.49
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd The Mask and the Flag: Populism, Citizenism and
Book SynopsisFrom the Arab Spring to the Spanish Indignados, from Occupy Wall Street in New York to Nuit Debout in Paris, contemporary protest bears the mark of citizenism, a libertarian and participatory brand of populism which appeals to ordinary citizens outraged at the arrogance of political and financial elites in the wake of the Great Recession. The book draws from 140 interviews with activists and live witnesses of occupations and demonstrations to explore the new politics nurtured by the "movement of the squares" of 2011-16 and its reflection of an exceptional phase of crisis and social transformation. Gerbaudo demonstrates how in waging a unifying struggle against a perceived Oligarchy, today's movements combine the neo-anarchist ethos of horizontality and leaderlessness, inherited from the anti-globalisation movement, and a resurgent populist demand for full popular sovereignty and the reclamation of citizenship rights. The volume analyses the manifestation of this ideology through the signature tactics of these upheavals, including protest camps in public squares, popular assemblies and social media activism. Furthermore it charts its political ramifications from Podemos in Spain to Bernie Sanders in the US, revealing how the public square occupations have been foundational to current movements for radical democracy worldwide.Trade Review'Seminal''Faced with neoliberal austerity and increasingly authoritarian states from Egypt to America, a new generation has created a resistance movement that combines anarchist networking with the rich heritage of left-populism. As a lucid explanation of this phenomenon, The Mask and the Flag could not be more timely.' * Paul Mason, author of Post-Capitalism and Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere *'The book is an important contribution to debates on how to make anarchist politics relevant and effective and poses crucial challenges to anarchist practice that should be taken seriously.' -- Anarchist Studies'The Mask and the Flag is one of the few studies of the movements of the squares that goes beyond the usual platitudes and wishful thinking and actually provides thought-provoking insights. It will hopefully inspire future studies of these movements, as well as of progressive politics in the early twenty-first century more generally.' * Cas Mudde, University of Georgia and University of Oslo, and author of Populism: A Very Short Introduction *'In a moment in which the term populism is being used and abused, this volume proposes an original theoretical framework and a thick empirical analysis of a broad range of protests against austerity, suggesting the emergence of a long-term wave of contentious politics characterised by new conceptions of citizenry and democracy. A stimulating read to provoke discussion on the successes, but also the challenges, for progressive politics.' * Donatella della Porta, Professor of Sociology at the European University Institute, author of Social Movements in Times of Austerity *'This book is essential reading in the time of Brexit and Trump because it reminds us that the upsurge of populism has a message of hope as well as one of shock. Drawing on the accounts of activists, Gerbaudo gets inside both the dreams and complexities of movements that form the basis for a democracy renewed.' * Tim Jordan, Professor of Digital Cultures, University of Sussex, and author of Information Politics *
£18.99
AK Press Property Is Theft: A Pierre Joseph Proudhon
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£22.50
AK Press Goals And Means: Anarchism, Syndicalism, and
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£13.50
AK Press Making Sense Of Anarchism: Errico Malatesta's
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AK Press Anarchism In Latin America
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AK Press I Am Action: Literary and Combat Articles,
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AK Press The Duty To Stand Aside: Nineteen Eighty-Four and
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£10.45
AK Press Deciding For Ourselves
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AK Press For Workers' Power: The Selected Writings of
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AK Press Salvador Puig Antich: Collected Writings on
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AK Press Recovering Bookchin: Social Ecology and the
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£16.20
AK Press Rattling the Cages: Oral Histories of North
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£20.70
ChristieBooks The Death of Durruti
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£9.95
Freedom Press Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
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£15.00
Freedom Press The Slow Burning Fuse: Secret History of the
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£13.00
Freedom Press The Anarchists in London, 1935-55
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£9.37
Freedom Press A Beautiful Idea: History of the Freedom Press
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£11.37
Freedom Press Memoirs of a Revolutionist
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£13.00
Freedom Press Greece and the Black Flag: A little history of
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£6.56
Freedom Press Fight For a New Normal
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Lawrence & Wishart Ltd Anarchist Studies: v. 21, Pt. 2
Book SynopsisIn this issue, Sureyya Evren's editorial examines the causes and consequences of the Gezi resitance in Istanbul in June 2013. Identifying the two-week occupation of Taksim Square and Gezi Park as the formulation of an temporary autonomous zone (TAZ), Evren discusses the police violence, state conservatism and threats to public space that led to this anarchist moment. Federico Campagna offers a poetic anarchist reading of the works of poet Fernando Pessoa. Pessoa lived through heteronyms, and Campagna explores how these different personalities offered Pessoa the potential to finally achieve 'free will'. Roy Krovel's article takes a theoretical approach in analysing how left libertarians and anarchists might develop a deeper understanding of global warming. Emphasising the urgency of locating such an understanding, Krovel argues that we need to fundamentally rethink our relationship to nature. Also in this issue, John Asimakopoulos identifies the failure to bridge the gap between utopian economic models of society and reality. Via the suggestions that corporations have boards of directors filled by lottery from the demos and the workers for the company, Asimakopoulos suggests that institutions of production need to be modified in order to achieve a society that resembles a distant utopia. Duane Rousselle and Saul Newman debate postanarchism, exploring the ethics of the movement and the fact that it is not located in a specific temporal period.Table of ContentsContents Guest editorial: Gezi resistance in Istanbul: Something in between Tahrir, Occupy and a late Turkish 1968 Sureyyya Evren Beyond the Anarch - Stirner, Pessoa, Junger Federico Campagna Revisiting social and deep ecology in the light of global warming Roy Krovel Bridging Utopia and Pragmatism to Achieve Direct Economic Democracy John Asimakopoulos Postanarchism and its Critics: A Conversation with Saul Newman Duane Rousselle Review Article A soundtrack to revolution? Chris Ealham Reviews Constance Bantman, The French Anarchists in London, 1880-1914: Exile and transnationalism in the first globalization Reviewed by Davide Turcato Martin Baxmeyer, Das ewige Spanien der Anarchie. Die anarchistische Literatur des Burgerkriegs (1936-1939) und ihr Spanienbild Reviewed by Dieter Nelles Mark Boyle, The Moneyless Manifesto Reviewed by Jim Donaghey Gary Chartier, Anarchy and Legal Order: Law and Politics for a Stateless Society Reviewed by Eric Roark Hannah Dobbz, Nine-Tenths of the Law: Property and Resistance in the United States Reviewed by E.T.C. Dee Kevin Eady, Uncontrollable Reviewed by Daniel Evans Vittorio Frigerio (ed.), Nouvelles anarchistes: la creation litteraire dans la presse militante, 1890-1946 Reviewed by Andrew H. Lee Antoni A. Kaminski, Michail Bakunin Zycie I mysl Reviewed by Rafal Chwedoruk & Mateusz Batelt Carlo Pisacane's La Rivoluzione. Revolution. An Alternative Answer to the Italian Question Reviewed by Pietro Di Paola Daniel Poyner (ed.), Autonomy: The Cover Designs of Anarchy, 1961-1970 Reviewed by David Goodway Andy Price, Recovering Bookchin: Social Ecology and the Crises of Our Time Reviewed by Thomas Martin Film: Bastards of Utopia, directed by Maple Razsa and Pacho Velez Reviewed by Petar Jandric Duane Rousselle, After Post-Anarchism Reviewed by Uri Gordon Jeff Shantz, Green Syndicalism: An Alternative Red/Green Vision Reviewed by Andy Price Davide Turcato, Making Sense of Anarchism: Errico Malatesta's Experiments with Revolution, 1889-1900 Reviewed by Andrew Hoyt
£10.99
De Gruyter Europa-Philosophie
Book SynopsisWhat is Europe, if it is not a geographical unit and still is not an economic and political unit? What is this Europe that has indulged in the excesses of war and mass murder up to the end of the 20th century, but wants to see itself as incorporating the ideals of justice and goodness? Europe was never simply 'Europe', it always questioned itself, it had to understand itself as Europe and thus found its unity in its philosophy. This book looks forward to Europe's future with a new reading of key texts in Europe's modern philosophical reflection on itself.
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Communalism Press Recovering Bookchin: Social Ecology And The
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£17.99
University of Illinois Press Black Flag Boricuas
Book SynopsisPositions Puerto Rico within the context of a regional anarchist network that stretched from the island to Cuba (a U.S. protectorate), Tampa, and New York, and struggled against religion, governments, and industrial capitalism.Trade Review“This is a splendid book, elegantly edited, which positions Kirwin Shaffer as an essential reference in the history of the Spanish-speaking anarchist movement of the Caribbean.”--International Review of Social History"Shaffer's elegant narrative eloquently brings to life a rigorous archival research not only from Puerto Rico but also from international archives in the Netherlands, Cuba, and the United States."--Caribbean Studies"An important contribution to the historiography of labor, radicalism, and political culture in Puerto Rico, with important implications for our understanding of the broader history of radicalism in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and within Cuban and Puerto Rican diasporas. . . . This was a clearly written and engaging book that could be assigned as course reading or suggested to advanced undergraduates and graduate students interested in radicalism in the early twentieth-century Caribbean and its diaspora."--Journal of American Ethnic History"An outstanding product of years of research in archives from Amsterdam to San Juan, and from Havana to New York. Black Flag offers a groundbreaking study of the brief but significant heyday of anarchism in Puerto Rico. . . . No other work in the English language to date brings back the legacy of the Puerto Rican anarchist experience as does Black Flag Boricuas.--Against the Current"Black Flag Boricuas sheds a great deal of light on the anarchist movement in Puerto Rico, a little-studied topic with implications in important debates on religion, education, colonialism, nationalism, and labor. This overall picture of an intellectually dynamic movement will be of interest to scholars interested in anarchism and Latin America."--Mark Leier, author of Bakunin: The Creative Passion: A BiographyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Abbreviations and Style Notes xiii Prologue xv Introduction: Cultural Politics and Transnational Anarchism in Puerto Rico 1 1. The Roots of Anarchism and Radical Labor Politics in Puerto Rico, 1870s-1899 23 2. Radicals and Reformers: Anarchists, Electoral Politics, and the Unions, 1900–1910 46 3. Anarchist Alliances, Government Repression: Education, Freethinkers, and CESs, 1909–1912 76 4. Anarchists, Freethinkers, and Spiritists: The Progressive Alliance against the Catholic Church, 1909–1912 92 5. Radicalism Imagined: Leftist Culture, Gender, and Revolutionary Violence, 1900–1920 106 6. Politics of the Bayamón Bloc and the Partido Socialista: Anarchism and Socialism in the 1910s 123 7. El Comunista: Radical Journalism and Transnational Anarchism, 1920–1921 141 Conclusion and Epilogue: Anarchist Antiauthoritarianism in a U.S. Colony, 1898–2011 167 Notes 181 Bibliography 199 Index 213
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MO - University of Illinois Press Immigrants against the State Yiddish and Italian
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Zimmer has produced a powerful text that brings to life numerous forgotten rebels and significantly expands our understanding of anti-statist social movements in the first half of the twentieth century… This immaculately researched and carefully composed monograph thus sets a new bar for the study of anarchism."--Anarchist Studies"Most students of US radicalism have long assumed that anarchism was brought to the US in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by immigrants from eastern and southern Europe. Zimmer demonstrates that the real story is more complicated. Recommended."--Choice"Zimmer's archival research is impressive… a fascinating examination of the interplay of individuals of various ethnicities… involved with anarchism and its sympathizers in San Francisco."--International Review of Social History"Well researched and eloquent."--Jewish Book Council"This is likely to be an essential work on immigrant anarchism for years to come."--H-Net Reviews"Drawing on an impressive and unprecedented array of Yiddish- and Italian-language sources, Zimmer details both the ideological connections and ethnocultural obstacles that supported and separated anarchist communities. . . . Zimmer's research and scope is encyclopedic. . . . Zimmer's fine book is indispensable."--The Journal of American History"Immigrants against the State breaks new ground in anarchist history and offers a timely contribution to the knowledge of immigrant radicalism, past and present. It is essential reading for students and scholars of radical and immigration history, and for anyone interested in exploring immigrant lives marked by a transnational collective identity that embraced diversity regardless of the national, ethnic and racial divides.--Labour History"A vitally important transnational work that makes significant interventions into the historiography of immigration, anarchism, labor and the working class, and late-nineteenth to early twentieth-century politics."--American Historical Review "An extraordinarily well-documented and stimulating read."--Italian American Review "A beautiful, exceptionally well-researched work of transnational history."--Canadian Journal of History "Admirably, the author uses Italian- and Yiddish-language sources to produce one of the most extensive accounts of anarchism in twentieth-century America. One of the best histories of anarchism in the United States."--Tony Michels, author of A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York "I have been waiting for a book like this for a long time, one that tells of the multiethnic and transnational world of early twentieth-century anarchism, not just from the perspective of the notorious figures, but from the grass roots. Zimmer is both a highly gifted storyteller and a meticulous, careful researcher whose account follows this history through a truly astonishing range of sources in Yiddish, Italian, Spanish, German, and English, from archives across the globe. This is the new generation of transnational working-class history at its very best."--Jennifer Guglielmo, author of Living the Revolution: Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880–1945 "A century ago, anarchists were everywhere, a movement in constant movement. Having mastered the languages of the two largest groups of immigrant anarchists in the United States, Kenyon Zimmer paints intimate portraits of their Yiddish- and Italian-speaking worlds. The book will be required reading for all scholars of immigrant radicalism. More broadly, anyone interested in the complex intersections of class, mobility, and culture in our own times will find much to ponder in the cosmopolitanism and internationalism immigrants created as they responded to the violent nationalist politics of their own times."--Donna R. Gabaccia, author of Immigration and American Diversity: A Social and Cultural History
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University of Illinois Press Radical Gotham
Book SynopsisTrade Review"With its chapters on labor, class, gender, culture, and prefigurative politics, this is a cutting-edge synthesis that shows how anarchism survived from the 1880s to the present in New York City--one of the central nodes in global anarchist networks."--Kirwin Shaffer, coeditor of In Defiance of Boundaries: Anarchism in Latin American History "This volume will be essential reading to anyone interested in American anarchist history....In addition to the essays' overall high quality, the book's (well-organized!) footnotes provide useful fodder for future research." --The Journal of American History "Overall, the collection makes a good contribution to the study of radicalism. It breaks new historiographical ground and it is well written and cohesive. It is suitable for an undergraduate or graduate class on American social movements or anarchism." --Journal for the Study of Radicalism "An inspiring collection that brings together the eclectic, transnational, multiethnic, and resilient histories of anarchist activism in one of the great hubs of the movement—New York City. Tracing the long arc of this movement from its immigrant and working-class roots to the Occupy movement, this is a must-read for everyone interested in the history and evolution of radical social movements."—Jennifer Guglielmo, author of Living the Revolution: Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880–1945"Radical Gotham is a timely and helpful investigation of New York City as an incubator for American misfits--immigrants, pacifists, and artists--and their evolving plans for a freer and more just world." --Journal of Social History"Radical Gotham does an excellent job contesting popular conceptions of a radical break in anarchist history by documenting how these later movements were profoundly influenced by the practices and theories of their early immigrant comrades."--Lateral
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University of Illinois Press Writing Revolution Hispanic Anarchism in the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Writing Revolutions's specific focus on the anarchist press sheds necessary light on the complexity of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century anarchist networks among a variety of Hispanophone social groups from the U.S., Latin America, and Europe." --American Periodicals"High-quality and worth reading. " --Anarcho-Syndicalist Review"This phenomenal collection brings to light the breadth, depth, and interconnectedness of the Spanish-speaking anarchist movement in the United States, as well as the transnational networks that linked it to Europe, the Caribbean, and Latin America. Essential reading for anyone interested in either anarchism or Hispanic labor and radicalism."--Kenyon Zimmer, author of Immigrants against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in the United States"Anarchism in the United States was so misunderstood and feared in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that governmental authorities at all levels worked their hardest to obliterate it, smash its presses and deport or imprison its leaders. Government mail censors, G-men, local sheriffs, not to mention political hacks and journalists were so successful in their persecution that most of the documents necessary to study this idealistic, social justice movement were destroyed and are still missing today. The editors and authors of the well documented, enlightening essays in Writing Revolution have done the yeomen’s work of tracking down a good portion of this legacy that was so important in educating workers and establishing the rights they still vouchsafe today. Castañeda and Feu, inveterate researchers into Latino history and identity, have taken the lead in restoring the role played by Spanish-language anarchist print in the development of Latino working-class culture. That the editors and writers here were able to trace the transnational networks of the Hispanic anarchists, as well as locate and study such a large sampling of their periodicals and documents has not only the potential of filling gaps in our history but also of providing a whole new corpus of texts that will put a lie to the concept that only the victors get to tell their stories. Castañeda, Feu, and their collaborators have restored the testimonies of so many activists and organic intellectuals that it will take many other scholars years to follow up on and study their discoveries."--Nicolás Kanellos, author of Hispanic Immigrant Literature: El Sueño del Retorno"This new collection edited by Christopher J. Castañeda and Montse Feu fills a substantial historiographical gap in the English language on Hispanic anarchism in the United States. The collection is sprawling in its ambition, with chapters ranging from discussions of early Spanish Republicanism and important but largely forgotten figures to analyses of individual newspapers and magazines. Despite this conglomeration of topics, the book flows easily, thanks in part to its chronological and thematic organization. " --The Volunteer
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