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Anarchist ideas and counter-cultures in Britain, 1880-1914 : revolutions in everyday life
- Title
- Anarchist ideas and counter-cultures in Britain, 1880-1914 : revolutions in everyday life / Matthew Thomas.
- Author
- Thomas, Matthew, 1972-
- Publication
- Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2005.
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- Description
- viii, 264 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "Anarchist Ideas and Counter-Cultures in Britain, 1880-1914 illustrates how anarchism contributed to a variety of diverse developments in British society between 1880-1914. These included the status of women in society, growing labour unrest, the development of alternative methods of education, debates on diet and modes of dress and new ways of living in both urban and rural co-operatives. Thomas demonstrates the multi-faceted nature of anarchism, whose supporters included communist revolutionaries, libertarian individualists, rural communitarians and industrial syndicalists. Also considered are the various ethnic and cultural dimensions of anarchism shown by the Jewish movement and Russian, French, Italian and German immigrants." "This book examines how the many areas of anarchist activism formed counter-cultures around which anarchists assembled in order to effect change. By analysing the various anarchist counter-cultures, Thomas demonstrates that those anarchists thought to have been ineffectual were in fact at the forefront of a variety of campaigns, which challenged the existing social, economic and cultural values of British society."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-254) and index.
- Contents
- The evolution of British anarchism -- 'A race of intelligent and imaginative children'? : the anarchist milieu -- 'No-one telling us what to do' : anarchist education experiments -- 'The romance of rose culture and the poetry of potato planting' : anarchism and alternative communities -- Anarchism and the world of labour : the new unionism 1889-1900 -- Anarchism and the world of labour : syndicalism 1900-1914 -- 'A woman who is not a revolutionist is a fool' : anarchism and the politics of gender.
- ISBN
- 0754640841
- 9780754640844
- LCCN
- 2004007433
- OCLC
- ocm54913735
- 54913735
- SCSB-14698940
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library