Prison Letters of Ricardo Flores Magón to Lilly Sarnoff
Title | Prison Letters of Ricardo Flores Magón to Lilly Sarnoff PDF eBook |
Author | Ricardo Flores Magón |
Publisher | |
Pages | 422 |
Release | 1979 |
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Prison Letters of Ricardo Flores Magon to Lilly Sarnoff
Title | Prison Letters of Ricardo Flores Magon to Lilly Sarnoff PDF eBook |
Author | Ricardo Flores Magón |
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Release | 197? |
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The Prison of Democracy
Title | The Prison of Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | Sara M. Benson |
Publisher | University of California Press |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2019-04-16 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0520296966 |
At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Built in the 1890s at the center of the nation, Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary was designed specifically to be a replica of the US Capitol Building. But why? The Prison of Democracy explains the political significance of a prison built to mimic one of America’s monuments to democracy. Locating Leavenworth in memory, history, and law, the prison geographically sits at the borders of Indian Territory (1825–1854) and Bleeding Kansas (1854–1864), both sites of contestation over slavery and freedom. Author Sara M. Benson argues that Leavenworth reshaped the design of punishment in America by gradually normalizing state-inflicted violence against citizens. Leavenworth’s peculiar architecture illustrates the real roots of mass incarceration—as an explicitly race- and nation-building system that has been ingrained in the very fabric of US history rather than as part of a recent post-war racial history. The book sheds light on the truth of the painful relationship between the carceral state and democracy in the US—a relationship that thrives to this day.
Anarchist Portraits
Title | Anarchist Portraits PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Avrich |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 343 |
Release | 2020-11-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0691221359 |
From the celebrated Russian intellectuals Michael Bakunin and Peter Kropotkin to the little-known Australian bootmaker and radical speaker J. W. Fleming, this book probes the lives and personalities of representative anarchists.
The American Radical
Title | The American Radical PDF eBook |
Author | Mari Jo Buhle |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 418 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0415908043 |
The American Radical tells the story of American democracy from the late 18th century to the present through the lives of the women and men who have fought to advance it.
The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón
Title | The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón PDF eBook |
Author | Claudio Lomnitz-Adler |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 641 |
Release | 2014-03-07 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1935408437 |
A tale, never before told, of anarchy, cooperation, and betrayal at the margins of the Mexican revolution. In this long-awaited book, Claudio Lomnitz tells a groundbreaking story about the experiences and ideology of American and Mexican revolutionary collaborators of the Mexican anarchist Ricardo Flores Magón. Drawing on extensive research in Mexico and the United States, Lomnitz explores the rich, complicated, and virtually unknown lives of Flores Magón and his comrades devoted to the “Mexican Cause.” This anthropological history of anarchy, cooperation, and betrayal seeks to capture the experience of dedicated militants who themselves struggled to understand their role and place at the margins of the Mexican Revolution. For them, the revolution was untranslatable, a pure but deaf subversion: La revolución es la revolución—“The Revolution is the Revolution.” For Lomnitz, the experiences of Flores Magón and his comrades reveal the meaning of this phrase. The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón tracks the lives of John Kenneth Turner, Ethel Duffy, Elizabeth Trowbridge, Ricardo Flores Magón, Lázaro Gutiérrez de Lara, and others, to illuminate the reciprocal relationship between personal and collective ideology and action. It is an epic and tragic tale, never before told, about camaraderie and disillusionment in the first transnational grassroots political movement to span the U.S.-Mexican border. The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón will change not only how we think about the Mexican Revolution but also how we understand revolutionary action and passion.
Anarchism and the Mexican Revolution
Title | Anarchism and the Mexican Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Colin M. MacLachlan |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780520071179 |
"Historians of the Mexican experience in the United States, immigration, leftist politics, and legal affairs . . . [and] anyone interested in the First Amendment should read this book; anyone concerned about individual rights during wartime should read it as well."--William H. Beezley, Texas Christian University "A rich and multi-textured presentation. While scholars will find this work extremely enlightening, the general reader will be caught up in the human drama."--James W. Wilkie, University of California, Los Angeles