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The Anarchist Inquisition
2022
Overview
The Anarchist Inquisition
explores the groundbreaking transnational human rights
campaigns that emerged in response to a brutal wave of repression
unleashed by the Spanish state to quash anarchist activities at the
turn of the twentieth century. Mark Bray guides readers
through this tumultuous era-from backroom meetings in Paris and
torture chambers in Barcelona, to international antiterrorist
conferences in Rome and human rights demonstrations in Buenos
Aires.
Anarchist bombings in theaters and cafes in the 1890s provoked
mass arrests, the passage of harsh anti-anarchist laws, and
executions in France and Spain. Yet, far from a marginal
phenomenon, this first international terrorist threat had profound
ramifications for the broader development of human rights, as well
as modern global policing, and international legislation on
extradition and migration. A transnational network of journalists,
lawyers, union activists, anarchists, and other dissidents related
peninsular torture to Spain's brutal suppression of colonial
revolts in Cuba and the Philippines to craft a nascent human rights
movement against the \"revival of the Inquisition.\" Ultimately their
efforts compelled the monarchy to accede in the face of
unprecedented global criticism.
Bray draws a vivid picture of the assassins, activists,
torturers, and martyrs whose struggles set the stage for a
previously unexamined era of human rights mobilization. Rather than
assuming that human rights struggles and \"terrorism\" are inherently
contradictory forces, The Anarchist Inquisition analyzes
how these two modern political phenomena worked in tandem to
constitute dynamic campaigns against Spanish atrocities.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Subject
ISBN
9781501761942, 1501761943, 1501761935, 9781501761935
