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Kenyon Zimmer, “Immigrants Against the State” (U of Illinois Press, 2015)
Kenyon Zimmer, “Immigrants Against the State” (U of Illinois Press, 2015)
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40 minutes
Released:
Jun 16, 2016
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Podcast episode
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In Immigrants Against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America (University of Illinois, 2015), Kenyon Zimmer, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas, Arlington, examines the anarchist movements and ideas of immigrants to the United States from the 1880’s through the 1940’s. Using sources in half a dozen different languages, Zimmer builds an in-depth picture of these movements’ achievements and challenges. This book is a definitive transnational history of working-class immigrant radicalism, which suggests that anarchist ideas are very much still relevant today.
Max Kaiser is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne. He can be reached at kaiser[at]student.unimelb.edu.au.
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Max Kaiser is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne. He can be reached at kaiser[at]student.unimelb.edu.au.
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Released:
Jun 16, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
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