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Marshall, Peter H., 1946-

Title Demanding the impossible : a history of anarchism / Peter Marshall.

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Oakland, CA : PM Press, c2010.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 3rd Floor Stacks	335.83 M357d 2010	---	Available
Axe Special Collections Welsh	335.83 M357d 2010 c.2	---	Lib Use Only

Description	xv, 818 p. ; 20 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. 708-794) and index.
Note	"Be realistic: demand the impossible!"
Summary	An authoritative and lively study, exploring the key anarchist concepts of society and the state, freedom and equality, authority and power. Marshall investigates the successes and failure of the anarchist movements through the world.
Contents	Introduction -- pt. I. Anarchism in theory (1. The river of anarchy -- 2. Society and the state -- 3. Freedom and equality) -- pt. II. The forerunners of anarchism (4. Taoism and Buddhism -- 5. The Greeks -- 6. Christianity -- 7. The Middle Ages -- 8. The English revolution -- 9. The French Renaissance and Enlightenment -- 10. The British Enlightenment) -- pt. III. Great libertarians (11. French libertarians -- 12. German libertarians -- 13. British libertarians -- 14. American libertarians) -- pt. IV. Classic anarchist thinkers (15. William Godwin : the lover of order -- 16. Max Stirner : the conscious egoist -- 17. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon : the philosopher of poverty -- 18. Michael Bakunin : the fanatic of freedom -- 19. Peter Kropotkin : the revolutionary evolutionist -- 20. Elisee Reclus : the geographer of liberty -- 21. Errico Malatesta : the electrician of revolution -- 22. Leo Tolstoy : the count of peace -- 23. American individualists and Communists -- 24. Emma Goldman : the most dangerous woman -- 25. German Communists -- 26. Mohandas Gandhi : the gentle revolutionary) -- pt. V. Anarchism in action (27. France -- 28. Italy -- 29. Spain -- 30. Russia and the Ukraine -- 31. Northern Europe -- 32. United States -- 33. Latin America -- 34. Asia) -- pt. VI. Modern anarchism (35. The New Left and the counter-culture -- 36. The New Right and anarcho-capitalism -- 37. Modern libertarians -- 38. Modern anarchists -- 39. Murray Bookchin and the ecology of freedom) -- pt. VII. The legacy or anarchism (40. Ends and means -- 41. The relevance of anarchism) -- Epilogue.
Subject	Anarchism -- History.
Added Title	History of anarchism
ISBN	9781604860641 (pbk.)
	1604860642 (pbk.)
Standard No.	AU@ 000046643966