The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón - The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón

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The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón

The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón - The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón

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A tale, never before told, of anarchy, cooperation, and betrayal at the margins of the Mexican revolution. In this long-awaited book, Claudio Lomnitz tells a groundbreaking story about the experiences and ideology of American and Mexican revolutionary collaborators of the Mexican anarchist Ricardo Flores Magon. Drawing on extensive research in Mexico and the United States, Lomnitz explores the rich, complicated, and virtually unknown lives of Flores Magon and his comrades devoted to the Mexican Cause. This anthropological history of anarchy, cooperation, and betrayal seeks to capture the experience of dedicated militants who themselves struggled to understand their role and place at the margins of the Mexican Revolution. For them, the revolution was untranslatable, a pure but deaf subversion: La revolucion es la revolucion- The Revolution is the Revolution. For Lomnitz, the experiences of Flores Magon and his comrades reveal the meaning of this phrase. The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magon tracks the lives of John Kenneth Turner, Ethel Duffy, Elizabeth Trowbridge, Ricardo Flores Magon, Lazaro Gutierrez de Lara, and others, to illuminate the reciprocal relationship between personal and collective ideology and action. It is an epic and tragic tale, never before told, about camaraderie and disillusionment in the first transnational grassroots political movement to span the U.S.-Mexican border. The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magon will change not only how we think about the Mexican Revolution but also how we understand revolutionary action and passion.
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Winner of Winner, 2015 Latin American Studies Association Mexico Humanities Book Award 2015

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Type Book
ISBN13 9781935408437
ISBN10 1935408437
Number Of Pages 608
Item Weight 1002 g
Publisher / Reseller Zone Books
Format hardback
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We have had many biographies of Ricardo Flores Magon and the Mexican Liberal Party [...] but Lomnitz's The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magon, a collective biography based on new archival research on both sides of the border as well as on previously unknown or untapped sources, and written as a cultural history of this milieu and period, represents the fullest and richest account so far. -New Politics
The brothers Magon had quite a story. Claudio Lomnitz, a historian-anthropologist and one of Mexico's preeminent public intellectuals, tells it beautifully and compellingly in minute detail... Historians know so very little about how revolutionaries act and think, especially those who lost. Lomnitz does us a great service by illuminating the psychologies and everyday lives of a small, and for a brief period effective, band of intellectuals; one, perhaps small, example of what it was like to live in times of profound upheaval. -American Historical Review * Reviews *
We have had many biographies of Ricardo Flores Magon and the Mexican Liberal Party [...] but Lomnitz's The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magon, a collective biography based on new archival research on both sides of the border as well as on previously unknown or untapped sources, and written as a cultural history of this milieu and period, represents the fullest and richest account so far. -New Politics * Reviews *

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