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Death to Bourgeois Society: The Propagandists of the Deed (Revolutionary Pocketbooks)
by Abidor, Mitchell [Editor]
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- Paperback
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 1629631124
- ISBN 13
- 9781629631127
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Walla Walla, Washington, United States
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PM Press, 2016-02-01. Paperback. New. Brand New; satisfaction guaranteed. Trade paperback binding. Earthlight Books is a family owned and operated, independent bookstore serving Walla Walla, Washington since 1973. Perhaps no period has so marked, so deformed, or so defined the anarchist movement as the three years in France from 1892 to 1894, the years known as the Age of Attentats, the years dominated by the Propagandists of the Deed.Death to Bourgeois Society tells the story of four young anarchists who were guillotined in France in the 1890s. Their courage was motivated by noble ideals whose realization they saw their bombs and assassinations as hastening. In a time of cynicism and political decay for many, they represented a purity lacking in society, and their actions when they were captured, their forthrightness, their defiance up to the guillotine only added to their luster.The texts collected in Death to Bourgeois Society focus on the main avatars of this movement: the grave robber/murderer/terrorist Ravachol; Auguste Vaillant, who bombed the Chamber of Deputies; Emile Henry, who attacked both the bourgeois in their class function and their very existence; and the Italian immigrant Santo Caserio, who brought down the curtain on the age when he assassinated the French president Sadi Carnot.The volume contains key first person narratives of the events, from Ravachol?s forbidden speech and his account of his life, to Henry?s questioning at his trial and his programmatic letter to the director of the prison in which he was held, to Vaillant?s confrontation with the investigators immediately after tossing his bomb, and Caserio?s description of the assassination and his defense at his trial.
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- Earthlight Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU20154291
- Title
- Death to Bourgeois Society: The Propagandists of the Deed (Revolutionary Pocketbooks)
- Author
- Abidor, Mitchell [Editor]
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 25
- ISBN 10
- 1629631124
- ISBN 13
- 9781629631127
- Publisher
- PM Press
- Place of Publication
- Oakland
- Date Published
- 2016-02-01
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Earthlight Books
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Walla Walla, Washington
About Earthlight Books
We are a family owned and operated full-service bookstore with a storefront located in Walla Walla, Washington and our online warehouse located in Olympia, Washington. Since 1973 we have been filling the literary needs of this wonderful community in the Walla Walla Valley. Over the past 48 years our shop here has become a staple of this vibrant local economy, a beautiful downtown scene and an informed intelligentsia. We sell books through our storefront, our website, and a book-mobile that travels to festivals and fairs.
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