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Steve Shone 's Women of Liberty explores the many overlaps between
ten radical, feminist, and anarchist thinkers: Tennie C. Claflin,
Noe Itō, Louise Michel, Rose Pesotta, Margaret Sanger, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, Mollie Steimer, Lois Waisbrooker, Mercy Otis Warren,
and Victoria C. Woodhull. In an age of great and understandable
dissatisfaction with governments around the world, Shone
illuminates both the lost wisdom of the anarchists and the
considerable contribution of women to intellectual thought,
influences that are currently missing from many classes documenting
the history of political theory.
American Anarchism by Steve J. Shone is a work of political theory
and history that focuses on 19th century anarchism in America,
together with two European anarchists who influenced some of the
Americans. The nine thinkers discussed are Alexander Berkman,
Voltairine de Cleyre, Samuel Fielden, Luigi Galleani, Peter
Kropotkin, Lucy Parsons, Max Stirner, William Graham Sumner and
Benjamin Tucker. Shone emphasises the value of using ideas from
19th-century American anarchism to solve contemporary political
problems.
Rose Summerfield: Australian Radical outlines the largely forgotten
achievements of this overlooked labor union activist and socialist
sympathetic to anarchist, feminist, and secularist ideas; a dynamic
speaker, who eventually emigrated to Paraguay to live on a utopian
commune called New Australia. In this first book-length study of
Summerfield, Shone supplements existing scholarship with new
information, revealing to full extent Summerfield's contributions
to radical thought, documenting the substantial scope of her
contributions to women's rights activism in New South Wales in the
1890's, a topic that has previously been almost completely ignored.
Lysander Spooner: American Anarchist is the first book-length
exposition of the ideas of the American anarchist and abolitionist
who lived mostly in Boston, Massachusetts, from 1808 to 1887. Few
people today are familiar with Spooner. Nonetheless, there are many
interesting strands of original thought to be found in his works
that have contemporary significance_for example his reflections on
the need for jury nullification or his devastating critique of the
social contract. Rediscovering Spooner today is no mere
investigation of a bygone nineteenth century thinker, but rather a
gateway to a brilliant and original scholar whose counsel should
not be ignored.
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