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A SHORT HISTORY OF ANARCHISM

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ISBN 10: 
0 900384 89 1
ISBN 13: 
978 0 900384 89 9
Number of pages: 
406
First published: 
1932-1934
This edition: 
1996
Blurb: 

"May all the anarchists, all the libertarians, all freedom-loving human beings become a united force, which, while preserving the autonomy of each of its members,  will practise mutual aid among them. May this force, by overthrowing authority in one place, weakening it in another, through our own genuine progress, develop in innumerable ways in order to advance liberty on a small scale and a large one, within ourselves and around us, anywhere and everywhere.  Let us have hope. For authority, powerful as it may be, can bring forth nothing but evil. All the good in the world has come, is now coming and will always come only with liberty and from liberty."
 

Contents: 

Preface
Introduction

1.    Liberty and anarchism: its earliest manifestations and libertarian ideas up to 1789

2.    William Godwin; the Illuminati; Robert Owen and William Thompson; Fourier and some of his followers

3.    Individualist anarchism in the United States, England and elsewhere. The early American libertarian intellectuals

4.    Proudhon and Proudhonism in different countries, in particular in France, Spain and Germany

5.    Anarchist ideas in Germany  from Max Stirner to Eugen Duhring and Gustav Landauer

6.    The first French communist anarchists and other libertarian forerunners. L’Humanitaire and its group; Bellegarrigue; the young Elisee Reclus; Dejacque; Coeurderoy

7.    Anarchist origins in Spain, Italy and Russia; Catalonia and Pi y Margall; Pisacane; Bakunin. Early signs of libertarian ideas in other countries up to 1870

8.    The origins of anti-authoritarian collectivism  in the International and in the groups formed by Bakunin in the years 1864-1868

9.    Libertarian ideas in the International from 1869-1872. Origins of the syndicalist conception of the society of the future. The Paris commune and communalism

10.    The anti-authoritarian International until 1877. The origns of anarcho-communism in 1876-1880

11.    Anarchists and social revolutionaries. Kropotkin; Elisee Reclus. Anarchist communism in France 1877-1894

12.    Italy; Anarchist communism, and its interpretation by Malatesta and Merlino

13.    Spain: Anarchist collectivism. Anarchism without adjectives. Anarchist communism.  Overview of the years 1870-1936

14.    Anarchist ideas in England, the United States, Germany, Switzerland, and Belgium since about 1880

15.    Anarchist and syndicalist movements in the Netherlands and in the Scandinavian countries

16.    Other countries: Russia and the East; Africa; Australia; Latin America

17.    Revolutionary syndicalism in France. Fernard Pelloutier, Emile Pouget. Kropotkin, Maletesta and syndicalism (1895-1914)

18.    French anarchism 1895-1914. The years 1895-1914. The War. Communism and libertarian activities. Conclusion

Notes on Bibliographies and Index
Bibliography (periodicals)
Bibliography (books and articles)
Short guide to Nettlau’s relevant works
Index (with biographical notes)

Biographical note(s): 

Max Nettlau, who was born in 1865 near Vienna and died in 1944 in Amsterdam, was the most proficient and still is the most important historian of anarchism. This one-volume introduction to the history of anarchist ideas and early movements, summarising the author’s monumental 9-volume history and several biographies, is the most reliable guide to the early anarchist movement up to the 1930s that has yet been produced.