Letterpress Revolution
The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture
$70.03
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
23 February 2023
Summary
While the stock image of the anarchist as a masked bomber or brick thrower prevails in the public eye, a more representative figure should be a printer at a printing press. In Letterpress Revolution, Kathy E. Ferguson explores the importance of printers, whose materials galvanized anarchist movements across the United States and Great Britain from the late nineteenth century to the 1940s. Ferguson shows how printers-whether working at presses in homes, offices, or community centers-a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781478019237 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1478019239 |
| Author: | Kathy E. Ferguson |
| Publisher: | Duke University Press |
| Imprint: | Duke University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 23 February 2023 |
| Weight: | 499g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
“By focusing on letterpress Ferguson presents a novel way of looking at the history of Anarchism. Letterpress as a way of working generates an active hands-on ambition to build and embody new and creative ideas… . Ferguson’s history promotes the message that meaningful radical development builds from face-to-face, hand-to-hand, cooperative endeavour.” - Peter Good (Kate Sharpley Library) “Ferguson’s half-century of involvement in radical politics and her painstaking research in anarchist collections (many of them ill organized) qualifies her to write this dense but compelling history… . Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty.” - T. S. Martin (Choice) “In fluid prose, Ferguson offers a fresh historical look at the anarchist movement through a focus on lesser-known figures and their lesser-known labours, including printing and letter-writing.” - Layla Saleh (LSE Review of Books)
“Letterpress Revolution is essential reading. It is a result of exhaustive and detailed research that clarifies instead of obscures. … It enriches anarchist history allowing us to appreciate the nuances and bravery of people as well as their complexities.”
- Barry Pateman (KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library) “Kathy Ferguson has written a wonderful book, an essential contribution to the history of classical anarchism-with her eyes firmly on the present-and a must-read for anyone interested in the movement’s political, social, cultural and material history, and in the women and men who made it, quite literally.” - Constance Bantman (Anarchist Studies) “In Kathy Ferguson’s rigorous, compelling and exquisitely poised analysis of anarchist print culture, we find journals and readers, presses and printers, letters and archivists stepping forth from the margins of anarchist history to take center stage as the generative, consolidating sustenance of the anarchist movement in its classical prime.” - Rebecca van der Post (Theory & Event)About The Author
Kathy E. Ferguson
Kathy E. Ferguson is Professor of Political Science and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and the author of several books, including Emma Goldman: Political Thinking in the Streets.
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