Anarchist immigrants in Spain and Argentina / James A. Baer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baer, James A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration.

Anarchists--Spain.

Anarchists.

Anarchists--Argentina.

Argentina.

Spain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Place of Publication:

Urbana, Illinois ; Chicago, Illinois ; Springfield, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From 1868 through 1939, anarchists' migrations from Spain to Argentina and back again created a transnational ideology and influenced the movement's growth in each country. James A. Baer follows the lives, careers, and travels of Diego Abad de Santillán, Manuel Villar, and other migrating anarchists to highlight the ideological and interpersonal relationships that defined a vital era in anarchist history. Drawing on extensive interviews with Abad de Santillán, Jose Grunfeld, and Jacobo Maguid, along withunusual access to anarchist records and networks, Baer uncovers the ways anarchist migrants in pursuit of jobs and political goals formed a critical nucleus of militants, binding the two countries in an ideological relationship that profoundly affected the history of both. He also considers the impact of reverse migration and discusses political decisions that had a hitherto unknown influence on the course of the Spanish Civil War. Personal in perspective and transnational in scope, Anarchist Immigrants in Spain and Argentina offers an enlightening history of a movement and an era.

Contents:

Preface

Principal individuals

List of abbreviations

Introduction

Origins of the Spanish anarchist movement in the nineteenth century

Anarchists and immigration from Spain to Argentina

Deportations and reverse migration, 1902-1910

The CNT and the war years : anarchist rivalries and new leadership

The FORA and the CNT : transnational anarchist rivalries

Changing political climates and return migration : Abad de Santillán and the Fai in Spain

Abad de Santillán and the anarchist revolution in Spain

Argentine and Spanish anarchists in the Spanish Civil War

Exile and homecoming

Appendix a. List of Spanish refugees aboard the Winnipeg

Appendix b. La protesta : prisoners in or deported from Argentina, 1905-1906.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 18, 2015).

ISBN:

9780252096976

0252096975

OCLC:

904397866