{"product_id":"black-flag-boricuas-9780252085574","title":"Black Flag Boricuas","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePositions 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.”--\u003ci\u003eInternational Review of Social History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"--\u003ci\u003eCaribbean Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"--\u003ci\u003eJournal of American Ethnic History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An outstanding product of years of research in archives from Amsterdam to San Juan, and from Havana to New York. \u003ci\u003eBlack Flag\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eBlack Flag Boricuas\u003c\/i\u003e.--\u003ci\u003eAgainst the Current\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBlack Flag Boricuas\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eBakunin: The Creative Passion: A Biography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments xi\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations and Style Notes xiii\u003cbr\u003e Prologue xv\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Cultural Politics and\u003cbr\u003e Transnational Anarchism in Puerto Rico 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Roots of Anarchism and Radical Labor Politics\u003cbr\u003e in Puerto Rico, 1870s-1899 23\u003cbr\u003e 2. Radicals and Reformers: Anarchists, Electoral Politics,\u003cbr\u003e and the Unions, 1900–1910 46\u003cbr\u003e 3. Anarchist Alliances, Government Repression:\u003cbr\u003e Education, Freethinkers, and CESs, 1909–1912 76\u003cbr\u003e 4. Anarchists, Freethinkers, and Spiritists: The Progressive\u003cbr\u003e Alliance against the Catholic Church, 1909–1912 92\u003cbr\u003e 5. Radicalism Imagined: Leftist Culture, Gender,\u003cbr\u003e and Revolutionary Violence, 1900–1920 106\u003cbr\u003e 6. Politics of the Bayamón Bloc and the Partido Socialista:\u003cbr\u003e Anarchism and Socialism in the 1910s 123\u003cbr\u003e 7. El Comunista: Radical Journalism and Transnational\u003cbr\u003e Anarchism, 1920–1921 141\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion and Epilogue: Anarchist Antiauthoritarianism\u003cbr\u003e in a U.S. Colony, 1898–2011 167\u003cbr\u003e Notes 181\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 199\u003cbr\u003e Index 213","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400517656919,"sku":"9780252085574","price":20.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252085574.jpg?v=1730470875","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/black-flag-boricuas-9780252085574","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}