Radical Gotham : anarchism in New York city from Schwab's saloon to occupy Wall Street /

"New York City's identity as a cultural and artistic center, as a point of arrival for millions of immigrants sympathetic to anarchist ideas, and as a hub of capitalism made the city a unique and dynamic terrain for anarchist activity. For 150 years, Gotham's cosmopolitan setting crea...

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Other Authors: Goyens, Tom, 1972- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Johann Most and the German Anarchists; Saul Yanovsky and Yiddish Anarchism on the Lower East Side; Fired by the Ideal: Italian Anarchists in New York City, 1880s-1920s; Times of Propaganda and Struggle: El Despertar and Brooklyn's Spanish Anarchists, 1890-1905; From Union Square to Heaven: Dorothy Day and the Origin of Catholic Worker Anarchism; New Wind: The Why?/Resistance Group and the Roots of Contemporary Anarchism, 1942-1954; Poetic Tension: The Aesthetic Politics of the Living Theatre.
  • Up against the Wall Motherfucker: Ideology and Action in a "Street Gang with an Analysis"Gordon Matta-Clark's Anarchitecture; ABC No Rio as an Anarchist Space; The Influence of Anarchism in Occupy Wall Street; Contributors; Index.