Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in the Twentieth Century

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Univ of California Press, Jan 13, 2016 - History - 399 pages
The first intellectual and social history of American anarchist thought and activism across the twentieth century

In this highly accessible history of anarchism in the United States, Andrew Cornell reveals an astounding continuity and development across the century. Far 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 stretching from 1915 to 1975.

Unruly Equality traces U.S. anarchism as it evolved from the creed of poor immigrants militantly opposed to capitalism early in the twentieth century to one that today sees resurgent appeal among middle-class youth and foregrounds political activism around ecology, feminism, and opposition to cultural alienation.
 

Contents

Anarchist Apogee 1916
21
FIGURES
35
Ellis Island Anarchist Weekly
73
Rose Pesotta
86
The Free Society Group of Chicago
101
Man and Cronaca Sovversiva mastheads
114
Barn at the Sunrise Cooperative Farm Community
131
Leaflet for a rally in support of Spanish anarchists
140
Holley Cantine Jr
157
Ammon Hennacy
170
Leaflet for an antidraft rally
181
David Thoreau Wieck
194
Conclusion
280
From the 1970s to Occupy Wall Street
291
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About the author (2016)

Andrew Cornell is an educator and organizer who has taught at Williams College, Haverford College, and Université Stendhal-Grenoble 3. He is the author of Oppose and Propose! Lessons from Movement for a New Society (AK Press).

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