Anarchists of Andalusia, 1868-1903 / / Temma Kaplan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Kaplan, Temma,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1977
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1432
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (286 p.)

Andalusian anarchism was a grassroots movement of peasants and workers that flourished in Cádiz Province, the richest sherry-producing area in the world, from about 1868 to 1903. This study focuses on the social and economic context of the movement, and argues that traditional interpretations of anarchism as irrational, spontaneous, or millenarian are not justified. The extensive archival research undertaken for this book leads Temma Kaplan to a major reinterpretation of the nature of anarchism. Using the police reports in local archives to reconstruct the lives of more than three hundred rank-and-file anarchists, Temma Kaplan shows that the Andalusian movement was highly organized and dedicated to defending the interests of workers and peasants through a wide variety of organizations. These included trade unions, workers' circles, and women's societies, all of which favored general strikes and insurrections rather than terrorism.Originally published in 1977.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures. List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction. The Lay of the Land -- I. Prologue: Sherry and Society in Jerez de la Frontera -- II. Capitalist Development and Bourgeois Politics in Northern Cadiz Province -- III. Bourgeois Revolution and Andalusian Anarchism: The First Phase, 1868 to 1872 -- IV. Insurrectionary Politics, 1869 to 1873 -- V. Repression and its Fruit, 1873 to 1883 -- VI. Collectivism versus Communism: Unions and Community, 1881 to 1888 -- VII. Te the Workers of the Fields -- VIII. Spontaneity and Millenarianism -- Bibliography -- Index