Anarchism In Latin America - Softcover

Angel J. Cappelletti

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849352828 ISBN 13: 9781849352826

Publisher: AK Press, 2018

Synopsis

The available material in English discussing Latin American anarchism tends to be fragmentary, country-specific, or focused on single individuals. This new translation of Angel Cappelletti's wide-ranging, country-by-country historical overview of anarchism's social and political achievements in fourteen Latin American nations is one of the few book-length regional histories ever published in English. With a foreword by the translator.

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Review:

"This book will introduce American readers to the extraordinary history of anarchism among our southern neighbors." --Staughton Lynd, co-author of Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism, and Radical History

"For the first time, English-language audiences have access to Angel Cappelletti's Anarchism in Latin America, one of the historiographical cornerstones of Latin American anarchism...an invaluable introduction to the hemispheric history of anarchism in Latin America. Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez's clear, skilled, and lucid translation includes an insightful introduction by modern scholar-activists that updates Cappelletti by expanding our understanding of how anarchists have dealt with feminist, environmental, and indigenous issues. This is a welcomed and timely book as anarchist ideas and movements once again surge throughout the Americas." -- --Kirwin Shaffer, author of Black Flag Boricuas: Anarchism, Antiauthoritarianism, and the Left in Puerto Rico, 1897-1921

"The idea of 'utopia' was engendered by the European discovery of the Americas, and the continent has continued to be a site for alternative possibilities since then. Angel Cappelletti's book is an informative and uniquely handy work of reference." -- --Claudio Lomnitz, author of The Return of Comrade Flores Magon

About the Author:

Angel J. Cappelletti: Angel J. Cappelletti (1927-1995) was an Argentinian philosopher who taught at Simon Bolivar University in Venezuela. He is the author of over twenty works primarily investigating philosophy and anarchism.

Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez: Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University.

About this edition

• Publisher: AK Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1849352828
• ISBN 13: 9781849352826
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 440