Anarchists of the Caribbean - Countercultural Politics Transnational Networks in Age of Us

Informationen zum Autor Kirwin R. Shaffer is Professor of Latin American Studies at Pennsylvania State University, Berks College. He is the author of Anarchist Cuba (2019), Black Flag Boricuas: Anarchism, Antiauthoritarianism, and the Left in Puerto Rico, 1897-1921 (2013), and co-editor of In Defiance of Boundaries: Anarchism in Latin American History (2015) which was the winner of the 'Outstanding Academic Title' award by Choice in 2016. Klappentext Examines the anarchist networks that connected Florida, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Panama in the early 1900s. Zusammenfassung Kirwin R. Shaffer examines the Caribbean anarchist networks of the early 1900s and demonstrates how transnational networks of radicals linked the Caribbean with Spain, the US, Mexico, South America, and Central America. He uncovers how these groups challenged local and national elites as well as US political, military, and economic expansion. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; A biographical prologue: the transnational world of José María Blázquez de Pedro; Introduction. An antiauthoritarian cartography of the Caribbean; 1. Anarchist straits: Cuba's war for independence and the origins of the Caribbean network; 2. Anarchists vs. Yanquis: the expanding network resists US neocolonialism, 1898-1915; 3. ¡Tierra y Libertad!: Caribbean anarchists and the Mexican Revolution, 1905-1930; 4. The Caribbean Red during the Red Scare: anarchists and the Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1924; 5. Anarchists vs. Yanquis II: the canal, the Great War, Puerto Rico's status, and banana republics, 1916-1926; 6. Bolivarianismo anarquista: anarchist pan-Americanism in the heart of the hemisphere; 7. Down but not out: confronting socialists, communists, and tropical fascists, 1925-1934; A literary epilogue: Marcelo Salinas and Adrián del Valle, 1920s-1930s; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Kirwin R Shaffer, Kirwin R. Shaffer, Kirwin R. (Pennsylvania State University) Shaffer, Shaffer Kirwin R.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781108489034
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48903-4
• No. of pages: 322
• Series: Global and International History; Global and International Histo
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Political Ideologies, HISTORY / Latin America / General, Political activism, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Political ideologies and movements, Anarchism, Political activism / Political engagement