The Paris Commune had a little Spanish sister, the Canton of Cartagena, whose impressive and neglected history is unearthed in this book.
In July 1873, thousands of men and women proclaimed a Commune, or "Canton", in the south-eastern Spain military port of Cartagena. Their aim was to build a federal Republic 'from below', while refusing to be sent to the colonial war in Cuba as soldiers or sailors. Confronted by the regular army and the intervention of the British Navy, they resisted for six months before finally surrendering in January 1874.
This book shows the importance of this cantonal episode in the history of socialism and colonial emancipation. It gives a voice to categories neglected by the major accounts of the workers' movement's history: peasants, workers from southern Europe, conscripts and working-class women. It reveals unsuspected links between the Spanish drive towards a federal and social republic and the imaginaries of Atlantic abolitionism, and of workers' internationalism. It thus places Spain and its empire at the heart of the global history of revolutions.
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Jeanne Moisand's book is a must and necessary reading, not only for the history of the Canton of Cartagena but also for the interpretation of the Hispanic 19th century and its European and imperial connections. In short, a key book. -- Domingo Centenero * SOCIOLOGIA HISTORICA * Moisand draws a picture that gives the Canton a complexity never seen before and inserts it into the Atlantic revolutionary cycles, connecting Spain's contemporary history with that of the rest of the world. -- Nacho Cavero Garces * RUHM * A rejuvenating look at one of the best-known and, at the same time, most cliched episodes of the 150-year old Spanish republic. -- Antonio Munoz Jimenez * AMBITOS * Impeccably researched, The Spanish Commune rescues the Cartagena Canton of 1873 from a long history of disregard. Moisand's account of a communal uprising that occurred just two years after its more famous French cousin restores the episode to its place in the national narrative, all the while making a major contribution to a trans-national understanding of the commune form. -- Kristin Ross A fascinating history of the Canton of Cartagena (an insurrectional community in Spain inspired by the Paris Commune that lasted three times as long), its ideological roots in radical republicanism and Bakuninist anarchism, and its connections to anticolonial movements in Cuba and the Philippines. Moisand's integration of local and global levels of analysis is both masterly and exemplary. -- Jose Moya
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Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 152 mm
Dicke: 22 mm
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978-1-80429-224-2 (9781804292242)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Jeanne Moisand is a professor of contemporary history at the University of Paris Nanterre. She is the co-author of 'Arise Ye Wretched of the Earth': the First International in a Global Perspective (Brill, 2018), and the author of Scenes capitales. Madrid, Barcelone et le monde theatral fin de siecle (Casa de Velazquez, 2013).
