{"product_id":"letterpress-revolution-9781478016595","title":"Letterpress Revolution","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKathy E. Ferguson explores the importance of anarchist letterpress printers and presses, whose printed materials galvanized anarchist movements across the United States and Great Britain from the late nineteenth century to 1940s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“By focusing on letterpress Ferguson presents a novel way of looking at the history of Anarchism. Letterpress as a way of working generates an active hands-on ambition to build and embody new and creative ideas. . . . Ferguson’s history promotes the message that meaningful radical development builds from face-to-face, hand-to-hand, cooperative endeavour.” -- Peter Good * Kate Sharpley Library *\u003cbr\u003e\"Ferguson's half-century of involvement in radical politics and her painstaking research in anarchist collections (many of them ill organized) qualifies her to write this dense but compelling history. . . . Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty.\" -- T. S. Martin * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"In fluid prose, Ferguson offers a fresh historical look at the anarchist movement through a focus on lesser-known figures and their lesser-known labours, including printing and letter-writing.\" -- Layla Saleh * LSE Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLetterpress Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading. It is a result of exhaustive and detailed research that clarifies instead of obscures. ... It enriches anarchist history allowing us to appreciate the nuances and bravery of people as well as their complexities.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Barry Pateman * KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xiii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Anarchist Letters  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Printers and Presses  21\u003cbr\u003e 2. Epistolarity  83\u003cbr\u003e 3. Radical Study  129\u003cbr\u003e 4. Intersectionality and Thing Power  185\u003cbr\u003e Appendix A. Compositors, Pressmen, and Bookbinders  215\u003cbr\u003e Appendix B. Brief Biographies  225\u003cbr\u003e Appendix C. Printers Interviewed 231\u003cbr\u003e Notes  233\u003cbr\u003e Letters Referenced  281\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  287\u003cbr\u003e Index  317","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409002471767,"sku":"9781478016595","price":65.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478016595.jpg?v=1730505051","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/letterpress-revolution-9781478016595","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}