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  • Fighting Fascist Spain  Worker Protest from the

    University of Illinois Press Fighting Fascist Spain Worker Protest from the

    Book SynopsisTrade Review"Fighting Fascist Spain elucidates the courage, creativity, and endurance necessary to keep this publication, its community, and its cause alive through decades of setbacks for antifascist Spanish exiles, both in their adopted homes in the United States and in Spain. . . . Feu's book reanimates a unique, print-based approach to resisting fascism and promoting democracy during that period while providing lessons that inform our understanding of the relationship between media, democracy, and resistance today." --American Periodicals”In this groundbreaking book, Montse Feu brings together a story of immigrants, print media, and transnational solidarity. Through meticulous archival research, Feu is able to craft a fascinating interwoven history about grassroots activism, anti-fascist organizing, and the global circulation of radical media from the perspective of Spanish immigrants in the United States. The book is also an important contribution to the bourgeoning scholarship on the Spanish Civil War’s impact across the Americas.”—Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo, Dartmouth College”An important, deeply researched, and well-written book. Feu has given us the definitive work on Spanish Civil War exiles in the United States.”—Kenyon Zimmer, author of Immigrants against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America”Montse Feu has produced a detailed and comprehensive history of the most important newspaper and its network of artists, intellectuals and common folk who worked together for some four decades to combat fascism in Franco's Spain. After more than ten years of exhaustive research, Feu has successfully brought to light this important chapter in the making of the US Latino community and its transnational impact. Taking the combative periodical España Libre as the axis around which community organizations in New York coalesced and found common cause, Feu identifies all of the major actors and their ideologies, with particular attention to the role that anarchism played in educating and inspiring workers. This is a book that will stand the test of time, as well as inspire many more years of research on such themes as Hispanic immigrants and exiles in the United States and their relationship to politics in their homeland(s), relationships and networks of the various Hispanic nationality groups in building a shared identity, gender roles among Hispanic intellectuals and community organizations, art and politics, and above all, the role of print culture in the development of these themes.”—Nicolás Kanellos, author of Hispanic Immigrant Literature: El Sueño del Retorno

    £77.35

  • For a Just and Better World  Engendering

    University of Illinois Press For a Just and Better World Engendering

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisTrade Review"Sonia Hernández paints a vivid and heroic mural of Mexican labor activists in and around industrial Tampico during the early twentieth century in her latest book, For a Just and Better World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938. . . . A richly woven and important labor study." --Journal of American Ethnic History "For a Just and Better World is a well-written and detail-rich narrative with a robust theoretical framework and creative analysis of a complex world. . . Sonia Hernández provides a much-needed map for readers to find both the women and the engendered anarchism integral in this story of a collective quest for a just and better world." --Southwestern Historical Quarterly "Sonia Hernández's new book is an engaging story that unites a traditional focus on anarchist labor initiatives with a study of the roles that women anarchists played in the gendered and transnational politics stretching from the Gulf of Mexico and northward toward the Mexican-US border from before the Mexican Revolution to the end of the Lázaro Cárdenas era." --Hispanic American Historical Review Table of ContentsCoverTItleCopyrightContentsList of IlustrationsAcknowledgmentsA Note on TerminologyAbbreviations Used in the TextTimelineIntroduction: Reenvisioning Mexican(a) Labor History across Borders1. The Circulation of Radical Ideologies, Early Transnational Collaboration, and Crafting a Women's Agenda2. Gendering Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalist Organizations: “Compañeras en la Lucha” and “Women of3. Feminismos Transfronterizos in Caritina Piña’s Labor Network4. The Language of Motherhood in Radical Labor Activism5. “Leave the Unions to the Men”: Anarchist Expressions and (En)Gendering Political Repression in the Midst of State-Sanctioned Socialism6. A Last Stand for Anarcho-Feminists in the Post-1920 Period7. Finding Closure: Legacies of Anarcho-Feminism in the Mexican BorderlandsNotesBibliographyIndexBack cover

    1 in stock

    £77.35

  • Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth

    University of Illinois Press Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth

    Book SynopsisAgrarian radicalism''s challenge to capitalism played a central role in working-class ideology while making third parties and protest movements a potent force in politics. Thomas Alter II follows three generations of German immigrants in Texas to examine the evolution of agrarian radicalism and the American and transnational ideas that influenced it. Otto Meitzen left Prussia for Texas in the wake of the failed 1848 Revolution. His son and grandson took part in decades-long activism with organizations from the Greenback Labor Party and the Grange to the Populist movement and Texas Socialist Party. As Alter tells their stories, he analyzes the southern wing of the era''s farmer-labor bloc and the parallel history of African American political struggle in Texas. Alliances with Mexican revolutionaries, Irish militants, and others shaped an international legacy of working-class radicalism that moved U.S. politics to the left. That legacy, in turn, pushed forward economic reform during the Trade Review"A fountain of information. . . Alter does an excellent job of showing the persistence of the agrarian radical impulse." --Southwestern Historical Quarterly"Alter's Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth is a highly readable, extensively researched contribution to our understanding of Southwestern radicalism. Both seasoned scholars and beginning students will benefit." --Western Historical Quarterly"Masterful. . . . Alter’s clear writing and well-argued analysis provides students of the Texas Socialist movement a newly congruent foundation. To repeat, this is the book to read first." --Kyle Wilkinson, Labor Online"Alter's careful attention to Socialists in Texas provides an excellent case study of the numerous forces that affect political agendas. He convincingly demonstrates that revolutions beyond the borders of the United States directly shaped the course of radical platforms in Texas, and he shows how even these radicals could not fully escape the grasp of white supremacy." --Journal of Southern History"In this thoroughly researched and clearly written study of radical politics and ideas, historian Thomas Alter II argues that German transplants to rural Texas contributed to building a farmer-labor bloc that significantly shaped American politics from Reconstruction to the 1920s." --Pacific Historical Review"In Towards a Cooperative Commonwealth, Alter provides a powerful example of how history can converse with the present. . . . His work deftly and naturally provides historical perspective into contemporary issues, clearly demonstrating that a certain degree of presentism within the profession is not only possible but often necessary. . . . Alter's work is an exceptional example of both quality scholarship and the role historians can and should have in the world today." --Journal of Arizona History"The Meitzens -- and Alter's book -- are too important for scholars of labor and American political radicalism to ignore. Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth should further appeal to a broader audience of scholars of immigration and transnational history, while lay readers will find it a rich and rewarding experience." --Journal of the Gilded Age"This engaging study moves easily from family history to broad movements for justice. It shows farmer-labor alliances as a persistent, important presence from Silesia to Texas. Alter tells a fascinating story of how solidarity with Mexican revolutionaries challenged white supremacy across borders."--David Roediger, author of The Sinking Middle Class: A Political History "Alter narrates the rise and fall of an agrarian radical movement in Texas that brought unlikely partners together, albeit temporarily. German origin families such as the Meitzens collaborated with African Americans and Mexican Americans to create a commonwealth based on mutual benefits and centered on land, until reactionary forces in Texas and beyond quashed the movement. Alter's account shows the crucial role of land in the history of class struggle and class alliances."--Sonia Hernández, author of For a Just and Better World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900–1938Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ixIntroduction 11 What Was Lost in Germany Might, in Texas, Be Won 132 Inheritors of the Revolution 453 Populist Revolt 754 The Battle for Socialism in Texas, 1900–1911 1075 Tierra y Libertad 1356 From the Cooperative Commonwealth to the Invisible Empire 171Conclusion: Descent into New Deal Liberalism 205Notes 219Bibliography 251Index 265Alter_

    £87.55

  • With Freedom in Our Ears

    University of Illinois Press With Freedom in Our Ears

    Book SynopsisJewish anarchism has long been marginalized in histories of anarchist thought and action. Anna Elena Torres and Kenyon Zimmer edit a collection of essays which recovers many aspects of this erased tradition. Contributors bring to light the presence and persistence of Jewish anarchism throughout histories of radical labor, women's studies, political theory, multilingual literature, and ethnic studies. These essays reveal an ongoing engagement with non-Jewish radical cultures, including the translation practices of the Jewish anarchist press. Jewish anarchists drew from a matrix of secular, cultural, and religious influences, inventing new anarchist forms that ranged from mystical individualism to militantly atheist revolutionary cells. With Freedom in Our Ears brings together more than a dozen scholars and translators to write the first collaborative history of international, multilingual, and transdisciplinary Jewish anarchism.Trade Review“This volume vividly recaptures the lost world of Jewish anarchism, tracing its political imaginaries as well as the social structures and practices that it built. Spanning multiple continents and centuries, it offers a new way of approaching the Jewish radical experience in the past--and potentially rethinking its possibilities in the present.”--Faith C. Hillis, author of Utopia's Discontents: Russian Émigrés and the Quest for Freedom, 1830s–1930s“This is the first book of its kind in English and each contribution is original and important. Not only does the collection add to the quantity of studies, it steers research on the subject in new directions. Traditionally, anarchism’s connections to religious thought have been ignored, the presumption being they have nothing to do with one another. These authors show otherwise.”--Tony Michels, author of Jewish Radicals: A Documentary HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Transliteration Introduction. Freedom’s Fullness: An Introduction to Jewish Anarchisms Anna Elena Torres and Kenyon Zimmer Chapter 1. Johann Most and Yiddish Anarchism, 1876-1906 Tom Goyens Chapter 2. Political Satire in the Yiddish Anarchist Press, 1890-1918 Binyamin Hunyadi Chapter 3. Jewish Anarchist Temporalities Samuel Hayim Brody Chapter 4. The Debate on Expropriations in Early Twentieth-Century Russian Anarchism Inna Shtakser Chapter 5. Translation, Politics, Pragmatism, and the American Yiddish Press Ayelet Brinn Chapter 6. Jews and North American Anarcho-Syndicalism: The Jewish Leadership of the Union of Russian Workers Mark Grueter Chapter 7. The Storm of Revolution: The Fraye Arbeter Shtime Reports on the Russian Revolution of 1905 Renny Hahamovitch Chapter 8. Divine Fire: Alfred Stieglitz’s Anarchism Allan Antliff Chapter 9. In the Jewish Tower: Prison Stories by a Forgotten Anarchist Ania Aizman Chapter 10. Jewish-American Anarchist Women, 1920-1950: The Politics of Sexuality Elaine Leeder Conclusion. The Past and Futures of Jewish Anarchist History Anna Elena Torres and Kenyon Zimmer Contributors Index

    £87.55

  • Radical Gotham

    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

    £20.89

  • Fighting Fascist Spain

    University of Illinois Press Fighting Fascist Spain

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisIn the 1930s, anarchists and socialists among Spanish immigrants living in the United States created Espana Libre (Free Spain) as a response to the Nationalist takeover in their homeland. Worker-oriented and avowedly antifascist, the grassroots periodical raised money for refugees and political prisoners while advancing left-wing culture and politics. Espana Libre proved both visionary and durable, charting an alternate path toward a modern Spain and enduring until democracy's return to the country in 1977. Montse Feu merges Espana Libre's story with the drama of the Spanish immigrant community's fight against fascism. The periodical emerged as part of a transnational effort to link migrants and new exiles living in the United States to antifascist networks abroad. In addition to showing how workers' culture and politics shaped their antifascism, Feu brings to light creative works that ranged from literature to satire to cartoons to theater. As Espana Libre opened up radical practices,Trade Review"Fighting Fascist Spain elucidates the courage, creativity, and endurance necessary to keep this publication, its community, and its cause alive through decades of setbacks for antifascist Spanish exiles, both in their adopted homes in the United States and in Spain. . . . Feu's book reanimates a unique, print-based approach to resisting fascism and promoting democracy during that period while providing lessons that inform our understanding of the relationship between media, democracy, and resistance today." --American Periodicals”In this groundbreaking book, Montse Feu brings together a story of immigrants, print media, and transnational solidarity. Through meticulous archival research, Feu is able to craft a fascinating interwoven history about grassroots activism, anti-fascist organizing, and the global circulation of radical media from the perspective of Spanish immigrants in the United States. The book is also an important contribution to the bourgeoning scholarship on the Spanish Civil War’s impact across the Americas.”—Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo, Dartmouth College”An important, deeply researched, and well-written book. Feu has given us the definitive work on Spanish Civil War exiles in the United States.”—Kenyon Zimmer, author of Immigrants against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America”Montse Feu has produced a detailed and comprehensive history of the most important newspaper and its network of artists, intellectuals and common folk who worked together for some four decades to combat fascism in Franco's Spain. After more than ten years of exhaustive research, Feu has successfully brought to light this important chapter in the making of the US Latino community and its transnational impact. Taking the combative periodical España Libre as the axis around which community organizations in New York coalesced and found common cause, Feu identifies all of the major actors and their ideologies, with particular attention to the role that anarchism played in educating and inspiring workers. This is a book that will stand the test of time, as well as inspire many more years of research on such themes as Hispanic immigrants and exiles in the United States and their relationship to politics in their homeland(s), relationships and networks of the various Hispanic nationality groups in building a shared identity, gender roles among Hispanic intellectuals and community organizations, art and politics, and above all, the role of print culture in the development of these themes.”—Nicolás Kanellos, author of Hispanic Immigrant Literature: El Sueño del Retorno"The life-long determination of the activists around Espana Libre reveals how the efforts of even a relatively small group can impact upon the attention and discourse of the larger society -- nationally and globally. Never fully acknowledged until now, Feu notes that the cause of democracy in both Spain and America owes much to the dedication of those anti-fascists who fought for justice and freedom, and left a legacy for the future." --Anarcho-Syndicalist Review

    1 in stock

    £19.79

  • For a Just and Better World  Engendering

    University of Illinois Press For a Just and Better World Engendering

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisTrade Review"Sonia Hernández paints a vivid and heroic mural of Mexican labor activists in and around industrial Tampico during the early twentieth century in her latest book, For a Just and Better World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938. . . . A richly woven and important labor study." --Journal of American Ethnic History"For a Just and Better World is a well-written and detail-rich narrative with a robust theoretical framework and creative analysis of a complex world. . . Sonia Hernández provides a much-needed map for readers to find both the women and the engendered anarchism integral in this story of a collective quest for a just and better world." --Southwestern Historical Quarterly "Sonia Hernández's new book is an engaging story that unites a traditional focus on anarchist labor initiatives with a study of the roles that women anarchists played in the gendered and transnational politics stretching from the Gulf of Mexico and northward toward the Mexican-US border from before the Mexican Revolution to the end of the Lázaro Cárdenas era." --Hispanic American Historical Review

    2 in stock

    £19.79

  • Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth

    University of Illinois Press Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth

    4 in stock

    Book SynopsisAgrarian radicalism''s challenge to capitalism played a central role in working-class ideology while making third parties and protest movements a potent force in politics. Thomas Alter II follows three generations of German immigrants in Texas to examine the evolution of agrarian radicalism and the American and transnational ideas that influenced it. Otto Meitzen left Prussia for Texas in the wake of the failed 1848 Revolution. His son and grandson took part in decades-long activism with organizations from the Greenback Labor Party and the Grange to the Populist movement and Texas Socialist Party. As Alter tells their stories, he analyzes the southern wing of the era''s farmer-labor bloc and the parallel history of African American political struggle in Texas. Alliances with Mexican revolutionaries, Irish militants, and others shaped an international legacy of working-class radicalism that moved U.S. politics to the left. That legacy, in turn, pushed forward economic reform during the Trade Review"A fountain of information. . . Alter does an excellent job of showing the persistence of the agrarian radical impulse." --Southwestern Historical Quarterly"Alter's Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth is a highly readable, extensively researched contribution to our understanding of Southwestern radicalism. Both seasoned scholars and beginning students will benefit." --Western Historical Quarterly"Masterful. . . . Alter’s clear writing and well-argued analysis provides students of the Texas Socialist movement a newly congruent foundation. To repeat, this is the book to read first." --Kyle Wilkinson, Labor Online"Alter's careful attention to Socialists in Texas provides an excellent case study of the numerous forces that affect political agendas. He convincingly demonstrates that revolutions beyond the borders of the United States directly shaped the course of radical platforms in Texas, and he shows how even these radicals could not fully escape the grasp of white supremacy." --Journal of Southern History"In this thoroughly researched and clearly written study of radical politics and ideas, historian Thomas Alter II argues that German transplants to rural Texas contributed to building a farmer-labor bloc that significantly shaped American politics from Reconstruction to the 1920s." --Pacific Historical Review"In Towards a Cooperative Commonwealth, Alter provides a powerful example of how history can converse with the present. . . . His work deftly and naturally provides historical perspective into contemporary issues, clearly demonstrating that a certain degree of presentism within the profession is not only possible but often necessary. . . . Alter's work is an exceptional example of both quality scholarship and the role historians can and should have in the world today." --Journal of Arizona History"The Meitzens -- and Alter's book -- are too important for scholars of labor and American political radicalism to ignore. Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth should further appeal to a broader audience of scholars of immigration and transnational history, while lay readers will find it a rich and rewarding experience." --Journal of the Gilded Age"This engaging study moves easily from family history to broad movements for justice. It shows farmer-labor alliances as a persistent, important presence from Silesia to Texas. Alter tells a fascinating story of how solidarity with Mexican revolutionaries challenged white supremacy across borders."--David Roediger, author of The Sinking Middle Class: A Political History "Alter narrates the rise and fall of an agrarian radical movement in Texas that brought unlikely partners together, albeit temporarily. German origin families such as the Meitzens collaborated with African Americans and Mexican Americans to create a commonwealth based on mutual benefits and centered on land, until reactionary forces in Texas and beyond quashed the movement. Alter's account shows the crucial role of land in the history of class struggle and class alliances."--Sonia Hernández, author of For a Just and Better World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900–1938Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ixIntroduction 11 What Was Lost in Germany Might, in Texas, Be Won 132 Inheritors of the Revolution 453 Populist Revolt 754 The Battle for Socialism in Texas, 1900–1911 1075 Tierra y Libertad 1356 From the Cooperative Commonwealth to the Invisible Empire 171Conclusion: Descent into New Deal Liberalism 205Notes 219Bibliography 251Index 265Alter_

    4 in stock

    £19.79

  • Bastards of Utopia

    Indiana University Press Bastards of Utopia

    Book SynopsisTrade ReviewRazsa's affirmative ethnography is by no means naive or uncritical, but rather exhibits a kind of intellectual generosity and political honesty that makes it a timely, persuasive and welcome addition to anthropology of anarchism. It is also great proof that good things still emerge out of long-term ethnographic engagement with a particular historical-geographic space. * PoLAR *Bastards of Utopia makes an excellent contribution to the study of political activism and the social movements that have left an imprint on local and international politics around the world—from the antiglobalization demonstrations of the turn of the century to the so-called Color Revolutions, Arab Spring, and Occupy Wall Street. * American Anthropologist *The book's cast of characters proves outspoken and sometimes violent, willing to don gas masks and wield Molotov cocktails during standoffs with authorities. In this manner, Razsa brings a personal note to his academic treatment of politics, protest, transnational movements, and globalization . . . This book will prove a boon to anyone interested in understanding the diverse world of contemporary protest, as variously made manifest in the Occupy Movement, the Arab Spring, and Ferguson. * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Grassroots Globalization in National Soil2. Uncivil Society: NGOs, the Invasion of Iraq, and the Limits of Polite Protest3. "Feeling the State on Your Own Skin": Direct Confrontation and the Production of Militant Subjects4. "Struggling For What Is Not Yet": The Right to the City in Zagreb5. The Occupy Movement: Direct Democracy and a Politics of BecomingConclusion: From Critique to Affirmation

    £56.10

  • Bastards of Utopia

    Indiana University Press Bastards of Utopia

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisTrade ReviewRazsa's affirmative ethnography is by no means naive or uncritical, but rather exhibits a kind of intellectual generosity and political honesty that makes it a timely, persuasive and welcome addition to anthropology of anarchism. It is also great proof that good things still emerge out of long-term ethnographic engagement with a particular historical-geographic space. * PoLAR *Bastards of Utopia makes an excellent contribution to the study of political activism and the social movements that have left an imprint on local and international politics around the world—from the antiglobalization demonstrations of the turn of the century to the so-called Color Revolutions, Arab Spring, and Occupy Wall Street. * American Anthropologist *The book's cast of characters proves outspoken and sometimes violent, willing to don gas masks and wield Molotov cocktails during standoffs with authorities. In this manner, Razsa brings a personal note to his academic treatment of politics, protest, transnational movements, and globalization . . . This book will prove a boon to anyone interested in understanding the diverse world of contemporary protest, as variously made manifest in the Occupy Movement, the Arab Spring, and Ferguson. * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Grassroots Globalization in National Soil2. Uncivil Society: NGOs, the Invasion of Iraq, and the Limits of Polite Protest3. "Feeling the State on Your Own Skin": Direct Confrontation and the Production of Militant Subjects4. "Struggling For What Is Not Yet": The Right to the City in Zagreb5. The Occupy Movement: Direct Democracy and a Politics of BecomingConclusion: From Critique to Affirmation

    1 in stock

    £21.59

  • The Anarchists of Casas Viejas

    Indiana University Press The Anarchists of Casas Viejas

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisExamines the lives of Andalusian campesinos, rural workers and peasants, who were swept up by one of the 20th century's pivotal social movements.Trade Review" ... It is no exaggeration to qualify this work as a significant new contribution to the historiography of Spanish anarchism and also to the social history of the Andalusian peasantry. A more effective prosecution of oral history is rarely to be found." Stanley G. Payne, Journal of Modern History " ... a brilliant and moving combination of conventional research and oral history." Raymond Carr, New York Review of Books "Mintz convincingly demolishes both liberal and Marxist myths about the Spanish anarchists, and compellingly depicts their real world in a classic revolutionary historiography." Nicholas Walter, New Statesman "This is an extraordinarily affecting and profound account of the anarchist movement in Spain, from the perspective of the ordinary women and men who constituted its core and whose lives were roiled by its turbulence. As a demonstration of how anthropologists can understand the grand events of history as forms of experience that resonate in everyday life for long decades after they occur, this book has become a historical milestone in its own right." Michael Herzfeld "For its intelligence and humanitarian achievements, for its political honesty, for its power and its beauty (there is no other word), this book deserves to be called a masterpiece." David D. Gilmore, American EthnologistTable of ContentsForeword to the new edition by James W. FernandezPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart OneOne The Beginning of the Anarchist Sindicato in Casas Viejas, 1914Two Social ClassThree CampesinosFour The Church in Casas ViejasFive The Centro is OrganizedSix Free LoveSeven The End of the Workers' CentroEight The Death of José OlmoPart TwoNine In the Time of the RepublicTen The Split within AnarchosyndicalismEleven The Year 1932Twelve InsurrectionThirteen The Uprising at Casas ViejasFourteen The Government and the PressFifteen Responsibility and PunishmentPart ThreeSixteen AftermathGlossarySelected BibliographyIndex

    2 in stock

    £18.04

  • Worse than the Devil  Anarchists Clarence Darrow

    MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Worse than the Devil Anarchists Clarence Darrow

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisTrade Review“A beautifully written account of Milwaukee a century ago, as well as a fair appraisal of the political passions of those times in the light of recent research. Strang approaches his subject with the skill of a sympathetic storyteller.”—Shepherd Express“Strang paints a convincing and critical picture of the events in question, illuminating this moment in American history and justice. . . . Bound to be of interest to scholars and hobbyists alike.”—Publishers Weekly“Dean A. Strang’s fascinating book excavates a conspiracy trial in Milwaukee back in 1917 that sheds crucial insights into the failings of our legal system and the hazards of succumbing to mass hysteria against immigrants and alleged terrorists. The book provides urgent lessons for us all. And along the way, the author provides vivid portraits of Clarence Darrow and Emma Goldman.”—Matthew Rothschild, editor of The Progressive“In engaging prose and with a terrific eye for detail, Dean A. Strang gives us the full story of a fascinating—and almost forgotten—moment of conflict from Milwaukee’s past. His book explores debates over civil liberties and terrorism, immigration and radicalism as they were lived and fought over a century ago.”—Beverly Gage, author of The Day Wall Street Exploded“Vividly depicts [Clarence Darrow’s] strengths and foibles. The reader truly understands why Darrow’s involvement in the Milwaukee bombing defendants’ appeal arrived at a pivotal period.”—New Republic“No one asked for this story. It simply begged to be told. . . . Strang’s impulse to tell a representative, rather than a unique, story has a chilling power he could not have anticipated.”—Partisan“A riveting account of a miscarriage of justice relevant to our times, when fear of radicals of a different stripe may infect our system of justice.”—Booklist

    1 in stock

    £18.66

  • Emma Goldman

    Yale University Press Emma Goldman

    Book SynopsisTells the story of a modern radical who took seriously the idea that inner liberation is the first business of social revolution. This title draws an intimate and insightful portrait of a woman of heroic proportions whose performance on the stage of history did what Tolstoy said a work of art should do: it made people love life more.Trade Review"Arresting . . . Gornick sees Goldman's lifelong commitment to anarchism as doing 'what Tolstoy said a work of art should do: It made people love life more'; this generous book does the same."—New Yorker * New Yorker *"[An] elegant portrait."—Russell Baker, New York Review of Books -- Russell Baker * New York Review of Books *"An intense, engrossing essay written with an allusive, sinuous style."—Fred Siegel, Wall Street Journal -- Fred Siegel * Wall Street Journal *“[A] fascinating biography…Gornick weaves it together in an accessible and engaging way…a timely and valuable contribution.”—Jennifer Lipman, Jewish Chronicle -- Jennifer Lipman * Jewish Chronicle *Finalist for the 2011 National Jewish Book Award in the Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir category, as given by the Jewish Book Council. -- National Jewish Book Award * Jewish Book Council *Honorable Mention in the Biography/Autobiography category at the Los Angeles Book Festival. -- Biography/Autobiography Honorable Mention * Los Angeles Book Festival *Finalist for the 2012 Book of the Year in the Biography category, as awarded by ForeWord Magazine. -- Book of the Year Bronze Winner * ForeWord Magazine *“Vivian Gornick has a gripping new entry in Yale’s Jewish Lives series...She has breathed new life into one of the liveliest figures of modern history—not a rebel without a cause but a rebel with many causes.”—David Shribman, Boston Globe -- David Shribman * Boston Globe *“Emma Goldman’s life is a biographer’s dream, with walk-on parts for many of the great figures of 20th-century history, from Lenin to Freud, and an astounding trajectory from poverty in Lithuania to America’s most famous anarchist.”—The Sunday Telegraph * The Sunday Telegraph *

    £17.63

  • Unruly Equality

    University of California Press Unruly Equality

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    Book SynopsisFar from fading away, anarchists dealt with major events such as the rise of Communism, the New Deal, atomic warfare, the black freedom struggle, and a succession of artistic avant-gardes. This book traces US anarchism as it evolved from the creed of poor immigrants militantly opposed to capitalism early in the twentieth century.Trade Review"Points to a growing interest in the study of American anarchist history for readers of political and social history." -- Jessica Moran Library Journal "No matter how one feels about it, the current state of anarchism has represented something of a mystery: What was once a mass movement based mainly in working class immigrant communities is now an archipelago of subcultural scenes inhabited largely by disaffected young people from the white middle class. Andrew Cornell's Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in the Twentieth Century supplies the first convincing account of that transition... Cornell's analysis serves as a much-needed check against the kinds of fairy tales that anarchists too often tell themselves about themselves. With its historical backing and its determined even-handedness, Unruly Equality simultaneously delivers a well-researched account of the 'transformation of the economic Left into the cultural Left' and offers an honest and nonsectarian assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of each... Unruly Equality makes a real contribution to the history of American anarchism and may - if it is widely read and carefully considered - make a contribution to anarchism's future as well." -- Kristian Williams Toward Freedom "Andrew Cornell's Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in the Twentieth Century comes as a precious gift. It is a sweeping, enthralling history of anarchism's march-really, more of a shuffle-across the mid-twentieth century in the United States. Throughout eight chapters and 300 pages of storytelling and analysis-all backed by another 70 pages of notes-Cornell explicitly attempts to demystify how the classical anarchism of Bakunin and Kropotkin morphed into the contemporary anarchisms we now know-from today's class strugglers and insurrectionists, to the anarcho-primitivists, and especially to the more intersectional anti-authoritarian current." -- Jeremy Louzao Institute for Anarchist Studies "Cornell's book is a perfect fit for a broad array of social and political leaders and thinkers, from young activists who grew up scrawling anarchy symbols on their lockers, to academics who study the means and motives of social change." -- Melissa Wuske Foreword "Unruly Equality makes a real contribution to the history of American anarchism... Cornell's book is... strong on the facts... [and] tells a forgotten story." Transcend Media Service The book is scholarly and highly readable... Highly recommended." -- T.S. Martin ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction PART I THE DECLINE OF CLASSICAL ANARCHISM 1. Anarchist Apogee, 1916 2. The Red and Black Scare, 1917-1924 3. A Movement of Emergency, of Defense, 1920-1929 4. The Unpopular Front, 1930-1939 PART II THE RISE OF CONTEMPORARY ANARCHISM 5. Anarchism and Revolutionary Nonviolence, 1940-1948 6. Anarchism and the Avant-Garde, 1942-1956 7. Anarchism and the Black Freedom Struggle, 1955-1964 8. New Left and Countercultural Anarchism, 1960-1972 Conclusion Epilogue: From the 1970s to Occupy Wall Street Notes Index

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  • AnarchoSyndicalism

    Pluto Press AnarchoSyndicalism

    Book SynopsisA manifesto for anarchism, written during the Spanish Civil War. With an introduction by Noam Chomsky.Trade Review'With a preface by Noam Chomsky, and a fascinating introduction by veteran British anarchist Nicolas Walker, this is a timely reissuing of Rudof Rocker's classic statement of anarchist principles, values and methods' -- SpectreTable of ContentsPreface - Noam Chomsky Introduction - Nicolas Walter 1. Anarchism 2. The Proletariat and the Beginning of the Modern Labour Movement 3. The Forerunners of Syndicalism 4. The Objectives of Anarcho-Syndicalsim 5. The Methods of Anarcho-Syndicalism 6. The Evolution of Anarcho-Syndicalism Bibliography Epilogue

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  • Kropotkin and the Anarchist Intellectual

    Pluto Press Kropotkin and the Anarchist Intellectual

    Book SynopsisRescuing Kropotkin's anarchist philosophy from the neglect and misrepresentation it has suffered.Trade Review'I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a lively introduction to the man's writing and its implications' -- John Agnew, Distinguished Professor of Geography, UCLA'A deeply intellectual, yet readable account of Kropotkin's life and thought, set in the context of a stellar account of the development of scientific anarchism. Essential for all critical thinkers and political activists desperately in need of a dose of optimism in these sorry times' -- Richard Peet, Professor, Graduate School of Geography, Clark University'An excellent contribution to this 'anarchist Renaissance' and should be read and referenced by all those who hope to heed the call to revolutionary praxis' -- LSE Review of Books'[A] wonderful introduction to Kropotkin’s thought' -- Marx & Philosophy Review of Books'An excellent introduction to Kropotkin’s life and theory' -- Science & SocietyTable of Contents1. Anarchism Before Kropotkin 2. Kropotkin: The Education of an Anarchist 3. Kropotkin and the Legitimization of Anarchism 4. 'Scientific Anarchism’ and Evolutionary Theory: Towards an Ontology of Anarchist Ethics and Altruism 5. Kropotkin’s Anarchism and the Nineteenth-Century Geographical Imagination: Towards an Anarchist Political Geography Epilogue Notes Index

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  • Northwestern University Press Other Worlds Here Honoring Native Womens Writing in Contemporary Anarchist Movements Critical Insurgencies

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  • Anarchy and the Kingdom of God

    Fordham University Press Anarchy and the Kingdom of God

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    Book SynopsisAnarchy and the Kingdom of God reclaims the concept of anarchism both as a political philosophy and a way of thinking of the sociopolitical sphere from a theological perspective. Through a genuinely theological approach to the issues of power, coercion, and oppression, Davor Džalto advances human freedomone of the most prominent forces in human historyas a foundational theological principle in Christianity. That principle enables a fresh reexamination of the problems of democracy and justice in the age of global (neoliberal) capitalism.Table of ContentsIntroduction | 1 Anarchism and (Orthodox) Christianity: An (Un)Natural Alliance? | 7 Part I: (Un)Orthodox Political Theologies: Histories The Symphonia Doctrine: Introduction | 27 Early Christianity: Who’s Conducting “Symphonia”? | 35 Divus Constantinus and Court Theology in the Eastern Empire | 43 Conducting “Symphonia” in Russian Lands | 67 The Modern Nation, Ethnicity, and State-Based Political Theologies | 88 Newer Approaches | 101 Political Theology as Ideology: A Deconstruction | 112 Part II: Anarchy and the Kingdom of God: Prophecies Alternative and “Proto-Anarchist” Political Theologies | 123 Being as Freedom and Necessity | 157 Something Is Rotten in This Reality of Ours | 169 Eschatology and Liturgy | 180 “This World” and the Individualized Mode of Existence | 184 The Politics of Nothingness | 190 Theology as a Critical Discourse? | 204 The End and the Beginning | 247 Acknowledgments | 253 Notes | 255 Bibliography | 293 Index | 309

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  • Anarchy and the Kingdom of God

    Fordham University Press Anarchy and the Kingdom of God

    Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction | 1 Anarchism and (Orthodox) Christianity: An (Un)Natural Alliance? | 7 Part I: (Un)Orthodox Political Theologies: Histories The Symphonia Doctrine: Introduction | 27 Early Christianity: Who’s Conducting “Symphonia”? | 35 Divus Constantinus and Court Theology in the Eastern Empire | 43 Conducting “Symphonia” in Russian Lands | 67 The Modern Nation, Ethnicity, and State-Based Political Theologies | 88 Newer Approaches | 101 Political Theology as Ideology: A Deconstruction | 112 Part II: Anarchy and the Kingdom of God: Prophecies Alternative and “Proto-Anarchist” Political Theologies | 123 Being as Freedom and Necessity | 157 Something Is Rotten in This Reality of Ours | 169 Eschatology and Liturgy | 180 “This World” and the Individualized Mode of Existence | 184 The Politics of Nothingness | 190 Theology as a Critical Discourse? | 204 The End and the Beginning | 247 Acknowledgments | 253 Notes | 255 Bibliography | 293 Index | 309

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  • Assassins and Conspirators

    Cornell University Press Assassins and Conspirators

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    Book SynopsisOver the course of the German Empire the Social Democrats went from being a vilified and persecuted minority to becoming the largest party in the Reichstag, enjoying broad-based support. But this was not always the case. In the 1870s, government mouthpieces branded Social Democracy the party of assassins and conspirators and sought to excite popular fury against it. Over time, Social Democrats managed to refashion their public image in large part by contrasting themselves to anarchists, who came to represent a politics that went far beyond the boundaries of acceptable behavior. Social Democrats emphasized their overall commitment to peaceful change through parliamentary participation and a willingness to engage their political rivals. They condemned anarchist behaviorterrorism and other political violence specificallyand distanced themselves from the alleged anarchist personal characteristics of rashness, emotionalism, cowardice, and secrecy. Repeated public debate about the approprTrade ReviewGabriel's book is an important and timely study in its own right. It will be welcome reading to those interested in modern German and European socialism, radicalism, political ideologies, and political culture. * Journal of Modern History *

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  • Against Capital in the TwentyFirst Century

    Temple University Press,U.S. Against Capital in the TwentyFirst Century

    Book SynopsisThe problems of capitalism have been studied from Karl Marx to Thomas Piketty. The latter has recently confirmed that the system of capital is deeply bound up in ever-growing inequality without challenging the continuance of that system. Against Capital in the Twenty-First Century presents a diversity of analyses and visions opposed to the idea that capital should have yet another century to govern human and non-human resources in the interest of profit and accumulation. The editors and contributors to this timely volume present alternatives to the whole liberal litany of administered economies, tax policy recommendations, and half-measures. They undermine and reject the logic of capital, and the foregone conclusion that the twenty-first century should be given over to capital just as the previous two centuries were. Providing a deep critique of capitalism, based on assessment from a wide range of cultural, social, political, and ecological thinking, Against Capital in the Twenty-Fir

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  • Anarchy and the Art of Listening

    Cornell University Press Anarchy and the Art of Listening

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  • Stop Thief!: Anarchism and Philosophy

    John Wiley and Sons Ltd Stop Thief!: Anarchism and Philosophy

    Book SynopsisMany contemporary philosophers – including Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and Giorgio Agamben – ascribe an ethical or political value to anarchy, but none ever called themselves an “anarchist.” It is as if anarchism were unmentionable and had to be concealed, even though its critique of domination and of government is poached by the philosophers. Stop Thief! calls out the plundering of anarchism by philosophy. It’s a call that is all the more resonant today as the planetary demand for an alternative political realm raises a deafening cry. It also alerts us to a new philosophical awakening. Catherine Malabou proposes to answer the cry by re-elaborating a concept of anarchy articulated around a notion of the “non-governable” far beyond an inciting of disobedience or common critiques of capitalism. Anarchism is the only way out, the only pathway that allows us to question the legitimacy of political domination and thereby wfree up the confidence that we need if we are to survive.Trade Review“At a time when the global order of power starts to become anarchic, Malabou attests to the importance and timeliness of anarchism today. In this brilliant intervention, she rethinks anarchism through the problematic of ontological anarchy, breathing new life into this forgotten tradition.”Saul Newman, Goldsmiths University of London“Stop Thief! is essential reading for all those committed to understanding and overcoming historic rifts between anarchy (popularly identified with leaderless politics, anti-globalization movements and libertarianism) and anarchism as philosophy. Older, semi-forgotten anarchist ideas are brought back and rendered re-usable for a contemporary revolutionary praxis. And with these reinvigorated conceptual frameworks, protean forms of revolt come into relief, positioned against the toxic fusion of ‘government violence and the uberization of life’ that underwrites late liberal, authoritarian political cultures of today.”Emily Apter, New York UniversityTable of ContentsTranslator’s Note 1 Surveying the Horizon 2 Dissociating Anarchism from Anarchy 3 On the Virtue of Chorus Leaders: Archy and Anarchy in Aristotle’s Politics 4 Ontological Anarchy. From Greece to the Andes: Traveling with Reiner Schürmann 5 Ethical Anarchy: The Heteronomies of Emmanuel Levinas 6 “Responsible Anarchism”: Jacques Derrida’s Drive for Power 7 Anarcheology: Michel Foucault’s Last Government 8 Profanatory Anarchy: Giorgio Agamben’s Zone 9 Staging Anarchy: Jacques Rancière Without Witnesses Conclusion: Being an Anarchist Notes Index

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  • Prefiguring Utopia: The Auroville Experiment

    Bristol University Press Prefiguring Utopia: The Auroville Experiment

    Book SynopsisAuroville in Tamil Nadu, South India, is an internationally recognized endeavour in prefiguring an alternative society: the largest, most diverse, dynamic and enduring of intentional communities worldwide. This book is a critical and insightful analysis of the utopian practice of this unique spiritual township, by a native scholar. The author explores how Auroville’s founding spiritual and societal ideals are engaged in its communal political and economic organization, as well as various cultural practices and what enables and sustains this prefiguratively utopian practice. This in-depth, autoethnographic case study is an important resource for understanding prefigurative and utopian experiments – their challenges, potentialities and significance for the advancement of human society.Table of ContentsForeword - Bem Le Hunte 1. All Life is Yoga: An Introduction Part 1: Culture 2. Auroville Is … 3. A Spiritually Prefigurative Culture: The Uniqueness of Auroville’s Utopian Practice Part 2: Polis 4. Divine Anarchy? The Development of the Auroville Polity 5. Spiritually Prefigurative Politics in Practice: An Embodied Account of an Auroville Community Decision-Making Process Part 3: Economy 6. 'No Exchange of Money'? The Development of Auroville’s Communal Economy 7. The Institutional Potential of Prefigurative Experiments: The Evolution of Collective Accounts in Auroville 8. Auroville and Beyond: The Grounded Hopes and Horizons of Spiritually Prefigurative Practice – A Conclusion Afterword - Ana Cecilia Dinerstein

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  • The Luso-Anarchist Reader: The Origins of

    Information Age Publishing The Luso-Anarchist Reader: The Origins of

    Book SynopsisNo book has ever presented a selection of writings of anarchists from the Portuguese?speaking world to an English?speaking audience. In The Luso?Anarchist Reader, writings by feminist radicals such as Maria Lacerda de Moura and anarchist communists such as Neno Vasco are made available in English for the first time. Researchers and activists interested in achieving a more comprehensive understanding of people's movements could certainly stand to benefit from exposure to these texts.Groups such as the Anarchist Federation of Rio de Janeiro are organizing in both urban and rural Brazil, sometimes working as part of a larger umbrella organization known as Brazilian Anarchist Coordination or CAB coordinating the efforts of various anarchist associations. Anarchists participated in the massive 2013 protests in Brazil, protests that brought together millions of people to speak out against corruption and for a variety of social causes. Anarchists are active in anti?austerity protests in Portugal against the European troika. Given the visibility of anarchism in the Portuguese?speaking world, Brazil in particular, the need to understand the roots of this anarchist tradition is especially salient.Anarchism in the Portuguese?speaking world during the early twentieth century brought together immigrants, people of African and indigenous descent, and feminists to forge a solidarity?based alliance for change. The young anarchist activists questioning the status quo today stand on ground seeded by the hard work of their predecessors.

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  • The Luso-Anarchist Reader: The Origins of

    Information Age Publishing The Luso-Anarchist Reader: The Origins of

    Book SynopsisNo book has ever presented a selection of writings of anarchists from the Portuguese?speaking world to an English?speaking audience. In The Luso?Anarchist Reader, writings by feminist radicals such as Maria Lacerda de Moura and anarchist communists such as Neno Vasco are made available in English for the first time. Researchers and activists interested in achieving a more comprehensive understanding of people's movements could certainly stand to benefit from exposure to these texts.Groups such as the Anarchist Federation of Rio de Janeiro are organizing in both urban and rural Brazil, sometimes working as part of a larger umbrella organization known as Brazilian Anarchist Coordination or CAB coordinating the efforts of various anarchist associations. Anarchists participated in the massive 2013 protests in Brazil, protests that brought together millions of people to speak out against corruption and for a variety of social causes. Anarchists are active in anti?austerity protests in Portugal against the European troika. Given the visibility of anarchism in the Portuguese?speaking world, Brazil in particular, the need to understand the roots of this anarchist tradition is especially salient.Anarchism in the Portuguese?speaking world during the early twentieth century brought together immigrants, people of African and indigenous descent, and feminists to forge a solidarity?based alliance for change. The young anarchist activists questioning the status quo today stand on ground seeded by the hard work of their predecessors.

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  • Anarchy, State and Public Choice

    Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Anarchy, State and Public Choice

    Book SynopsisAlthough most people believe that some form of government is necessary, until recently it was merely an assumption that had never been analyzed from an economic point of view. This changed in the 1970s when economists at the Center for the Study of Public Choice engaged in a systematic exploration of the issue. This stimulating collection, the first book-length treatment on the public choice theory of government, continues and extends the research program begun more than three decades ago.The book reprints the main articles from the 1972 volume Explorations in the Theory of Anarchy, and contains a response to each chapter, as well as new comments by Gordon Tullock, James Buchanan, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel and Peter Boettke. The younger economists are notably less pessimistic about markets and more pessimistic about government than their predecessors. Much of the new analysis suggests that private property rights and contracts can exist without government, and that even though problems exist, government does not seem to offer a solution. Might anarchy be the best choice after all? This provocative volume explores this issue in-depth and provides some interesting answers.Economists, political scientists, philosophers and lawyers interested in public choice, political economy and spontaneous order will find this series of essays illuminating.Trade Review'The collection is well-rounded, including both purely theoretical analyses, as well as contributions with a strong historical and empirical focus. . . This is an excellent collection not only for all those interested in the question of whether anarchy constitutes a feasible option that is superior to statist societies, but also for those interested in understanding how many real-world interactions do take place in the absence of effective third-party enforcement.' -- Ralf M. Bader, Economic Affairs'This is an excellent book. Edward Stringham has collected a set of very helpful essays exploring the economics of bottom-up social organization of anarchy.' -- - Review of Austrian EconomicsTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Edward Stringham 2. Individual Welfare in Anarchy Winston Bush 3. Jungle or Just Bush? Anarchy and the Evolution of Cooperation Jason Osborne 4. The Edge of the Jungle Gordon Tullock 5. Social Interaction without the State Christopher Coyne 6. Towards a Theory of the Evolution of Government J. Patrick Gunning 7. Do Contracts Require Formal Enforcement? Peter T. Leeson 8. Before Public Choice James M. Buchanan 9. Public Choice and Leviathan Benjamin Powell 10. Cases in Anarchy Thomas Hogarty 11. Defining Anarchy as Rock-n-Roll: Rethinking Hogarty’s Three Cases Virgil Storr 12. Private Property Anarchism: An American Variant Laurence Moss 13. Anarchism and the Theory of Power Warren Samuels 14. Polycentrism and Power Scott Beaulier 15. Reflections After Three Decades James M. Buchanan 16. Anarchy Gordon Tullock 17. Tullock on Anarchy Jeffrey Rogers Hummel 18. Anarchism as a Progressive Research Program in Political Economy Peter J. Boettke Index

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  • Love, Anarchy, & Emma Goldman

    Rutgers University Press Love, Anarchy, & Emma Goldman

    Book Synopsis“What this remarkable book does . . . is to remind us of that passion, that revolutionary fervor, that camaraderie, that persistence in the face of political defeat and personal despair so needed in our time as in theirs.” —Howard Zinn “Fascinating …With marvelous clarity and depth, Candace Falk illuminates for us an Emma Goldman shaped by her time yet presaging in her life the situation and conflicts of women in our time.” —Tillie Olsen One of the most famous political activists of all time, Emma Goldman was also infamous for her radical anarchist views and her “scandalous” personal life. In public, Goldman was a firebrand, confidently agitating for labor reform, anarchism, birth control, and women’s independence. But behind closed doors she was more vulnerable, especially when it came to the love of her life. Love, Anarchy, & Emma Goldman is an account of Goldman’s legendary career as a political activist. But it is more than that—it is a biography that offers an intimate look at how Goldman’s passion for social reform dovetailed with her passion for one man: Chicago activist, hobo king, and red-light district gynecologist Ben Reitman. Candace Falk takes us into the heart of their tumultuous love affair, finding that even as Goldman lectured on free love, she confronted her own intense jealousy. As director of the Emma Goldman papers, Falk had access to over 40,000 writings by Goldman—including her private letters and notes—and she draws upon these archives to give us a rare insight into this brilliant, complex woman’s thoughts. The result is both a riveting love story and a primer on an exciting, explosive era in American politics and intellectual life. Trade ReviewWhat this remarkable book does . . . is to remind us of that passion, that revolutionary fervor, that camaraderie, that persistence in the face of political defeat and personal despair so needed in our time as in theirs."" - Howard Zinn""Fascinating. With marvelous clarity and depth, Candace Falk illuminates for us an Emma Goldman shaped by her time yet presaging in her life the situation and conflicts of women in our time."" - Tillie Olsen

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