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Chris Ealham explores these complex and often violent relationships, utilizing an innovative blend of history, urbanism, sociology, and cultural studies. No other work digs this deep into the composition of an urban working class movement and certainly not with such a sympathetic eye for the aspirations of its anarchist denizens.
Scrupulously researched and well written, this is the finest study of working-class anarchist life and culture since Paul Avrich's The Haymarket Tragedy. Not only a study of working-class Barcelona, Anarchism and the City is the story of anarchists organizing themselves where they lived, and of the militant culture they were a part of and helped to create. Ealham's book draws on a marvelous array of sources, and offers a picture of anarchism in Spain that is both groundbreaking, honest, and, yes, inspirational. This is the history of the barris coming alive in your hands. Put simply, no future study of anarchism can ever ignore this book, which comes closer than any other English-language work in understanding what anarchism and its practice meant to Spanish working-class people at the time. Barry Pateman, Associate Editor at the Emma Goldman Papers and editor of Chomsky on Anarchism.
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| Author | Chris Ealham |
|---|---|
| Publisher | AK Press |
| Page Count | 264pp |
| Publication Size | 6 x 9 |
| Publication Notes | softcover |
| Publication Date | February 2010 |
| ISBN | 978-1849350129 |
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