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Emma Goldman: a Documentary History of the American Years: Made for America, 1890 - 1901 - Softcover
Synopsis
"This collection is an excellent overview of Goldman's early years and is recommended for larger public and all academic libraries."-Library Journal
Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years redefines the historical memory of Emma Goldman and illuminates a forgotten yet influential facet of the history of American and European radicalism.
Made For America, 1890–1901 is the first of five volumes -providing a documentary history of the life, work, and ideas of Goldman. Over 650 pages of original texts--letters, speeches, and newspaper articles by, about, and to anarchism's leading lady, all anthologized for the first time and painstakingly annotated, introduced, and contextualized.
This first volume tracks the young Emma's introduction into the anarchist movement, features her earliest known writings in the German anarchist press, and charts her gradual emergence from the radical immigrant circles of New York City's Lower East Side into a political and intellectual culture of both national and international importance.
Themes that came to dominate her life-anarchism and its possibilities, free speech, education, the transformative power and social significance of literature, the position of labor within the capitalist economic system, the vital importance of women's freedom, the dynamics of personal relationships, and strategies for social revolution-are among the many introduced here.
Emma Goldman (1869–1940) stands as a major figure in the history of American radicalism and feminism. An influential and well-known anarchist of her time, Goldman was an early advocate of free speech, women's equality and independence, and union organization. To this day she remains one of the most recognizable figures in anarchist history.
Barry Pateman is the curator of the Emma Goldman Archive at the University of California Berkeley.
Candace Falk is the founder and executive director of the Emma Goldman Archive at the University of California Berkeley.
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Book Description
Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years reconstructs the life of Emma Goldman through significant texts and documents. These volumes collect personal letters, lecture notes, newspaper articles, court transcripts, government surveillance reports, and numerous other documents, many of which appear here in English for the first time. Supplemented with thorough annotations, multiple appendixes, and detailed chronologies, the texts bring to life the memory of this singular, pivotal figure in American and European radical history.
Volume 1: Made for America, 1890-1901 introduces readers to the young Emma Goldman as she begins her association with the international anarchist movement and especially with the German, Jewish, and Italian immigrant radicals in New York City. From early on, Goldman's movement through political and intellectual circles is marked by violence, from the attempted murder of industrialist Henry Clay Frick by Goldman's lover, Alexander Berkman, to the assassination of President William McKinley, in which Goldman was falsely implicated. The documents surrounding these events illuminate Goldman's struggle to balance anarchism's positive gains and its destructive costs. This volume introduces many of the themes that would pervade much of Goldman's later writings and speeches: the untold possibilities of anarchism; the transformative power of literature; the interplay of human relationships; and the importance of free speech, education, labor, women's freedom, and radical social reform.
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Emma Goldman (1869–1940) stands as a major figure in the history of American radicalism and feminism. An influential and well-known anarchist of her time, Goldman was an early advocate of free speech, birth control, women's rights, and union organization. To this day she remains one of the most recognizable figures in anarchist history.
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- PublisherA K Pr Distribution
- ISBN 10 1904859453
- ISBN 13 9781904859451
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages655
- EditorPateman Barry, Falk Candace
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