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  • Portugal

    The Impossible Revolution?

    by Phil Mailer, Maurice Brinton ...
    After the military coup in Portugal on April 25th, 1974, the overthrow of almost fifty years of Fascist rule, and the end of three colonial wars, there followed eighteen months of intense, democratic social transformation which challenged every aspect of Portuguese society. What started as a military coup turned into a profound attempt at social change from the bottom up and became headlines on a ... Read more

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  • Two Cheers for Anarchism

    Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play

    by James C. Scott ...
    A spirited defense of the anarchist approach to lifeJames Scott taught us what's wrong with seeing like a state. Now, in his most accessible and personal book to date, the acclaimed social scientist makes the case for seeing like an anarchist. Inspired by the core anarchist faith in the possibilities of voluntary cooperation without hierarchy, Two Cheers for Anarchism is an engaging, high-spirited ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Drizzle of Honey

    The Life and Recipes of Spain's Secret Jews

    by David M. Gitlitz, Linda Kay Davidson ...
    When Iberian Jews were converted to Catholicism under duress during the Inquisition, many struggled to retain their Jewish identity in private while projecting Christian conformity in the public sphere. To root out these heretics, the courts of the Inquisition published checklists of koshering practices and "grilled" the servants, neighbors, and even the children of those suspected of practicing ... Read more

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  • CNT in the Spanish Revolution Volume 1

    by José Peirats ...
    The CNT in the Spanish Revolution is the history of one of the most original and audacious, and arguably also the most far-reaching, of all the twentieth-century revolutions. It is the history of the giddy years of political change and hope in 1930s Spain, when the so-called ‘Generation of ’36’, Peirats’ own generation, rose up against the oppressive structures of Spanish society. It is also a ... Read more

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  • Haymarket

    A Novel

    by Martin Duberman ...
    On the night of May 4, 1886, during a peaceful demonstration of labor activists in Haymarket Square in Chicago, a dynamite bomb was thrown into the ranks of police -trying to disperse the crowd. The officers immediately opened fire, killing a number of protestors and wounding some two hundred others.Albert Parsons was the best-known of those hanged; Haymarket is his story. Parsons, humanist and ... Read more

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  • Anarchism and Workers' Self-Management in Revolutionary Spain

    Translated by Paul Sharkey ...
    by Frank Mintz, Chris Ealham ...
    This is the first English translation of Frank Mintz's seminal study of the economic experiments put into place during the Spanish Revolution to both sustain civil society during the war and, more importantly, act as the material basis for a new society. These plans weren't developed by professional economists but grew out of a political movement that put working people at the fore and believed ... Read more

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  • Ready for Revolution

    The CNT Defense Committees in Barcelona, 1933-1938

    by Agustín Guillamón ...
    Translated by Paul Sharkey ...
    Seeing the writing on the wall, one of Spain's largest unions began secretly arming workers throughout the country. The anarcho-syndicalist union evolved from overseeing workers' defense to organizing armed resistance to the Fascist coup. From there, it administered entire militias and finally coordinated industrial self-management and food distribution, leading a revolution within the Spanish ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Singular and Plural

    Ideologies of Linguistic Authority in 21st Century Catalonia

    by Kathryn A. Woolard ...
    Series series Oxf Studies in Anthropology of Language
    Winner of the Ramon Llull International Prize Winner of the 2017 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Edward Sapir Book Prize A vibrant and surprisingly powerful civic and political movement for an independent Catalonia has brought renewed urgency to questions about what it means, personally and politically, to speak or not to speak Catalan and to claim Catalan identity. In this book, Kathryn ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Living Anarchism

    José Peirats and the Spanish Anarcho-syndicalist Movement

    by Chris Ealham ...
    "Magnificent."—Paul Preston, author of The Spanish HolocaustBrick maker by trade, revolutionary anarchist and historian by default; this is a study of the life of José Peirats (1908–1989) and the labor union that gave him life, the CNT. It is the biography of an individual but also of a collective agent—the working class Peirats was born into—and the affective ties of kinship, friendship, and ... Read more

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  • The Sephardic Frontier

    The "Reconquista" and the Jewish Community in Medieval Iberia

    by Jonathan Ray ...
    Series series Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past
    No subject looms larger over the historical landscape of medieval Spain than that of the reconquista, the rapid expansion of the power of the Christian kingdoms into the Muslim-populated lands of southern Iberia, which created a broad frontier zone that for two centuries remained a region of warfare and peril. Drawing on a large fund of unpublished material in royal, ecclesiastical, and municipal ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • The Modern Spain Sourcebook

    A Cultural History from 1600 to the Present

    Edited by Professor Aurora G. Morcillo, María Asunción Gómez, Dr Paula De La Cruz-Fernández, Mr José Manuel Morcillo-Gómez ...
    Incorporating a wide range of visual and translated written sources, The Modern Spain Sourcebookdocuments Spain's history from the Enlightenment to the present.The book is thematically arranged and includes six key primary sources on ten significant areas of Spanish history, including the arts, work, education, religion, politics, sexuality and empire. As well as the book's overarching ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • The Francoist Military Trials

    Terror and Complicity,1939-1945

    by Peter Anderson ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on Contemporary Spain
    In Spain between 1936-1945, the Franco regime carried out one Europe’s more brutal but less remembered programs of mass repression. Many were murdered by the regime’s death squads, and in some areas Francoists also subjected up to 15% of the population to summary military trials. Here many suffered the death sentence or jail terms up to thirty years. Although historians have recognised the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD