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  • Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, Volume 1: Made for America, 1890-1901
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  • Emma Goldman. Edited by Candace Falk; Barry Pateman, Assoc Ed; Jessica Moran, A
  • 2008
  • Published by: University of Illinois Press
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Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years reconstructs the life of Emma Goldman through significant texts and documents. These volumes collect personal letters, lecture notes, newspaper articles, court transcripts, government surveillance reports, and numerous other documents, many of which appear here in English for the first time. Supplemented with thorough annotations, multiple appendixes, and detailed chronologies, the texts bring to life the memory of this singular, pivotal figure in American and European radical history.

Volume 1: Made for America, 1890-1901 introduces readers to the young Emma Goldman as she begins her association with the international anarchist movement and especially with the German, Jewish, and Italian immigrant radicals in New York City. From early on, Goldman's movement through political and intellectual circles is marked by violence, from the attempted murder of industrialist Henry Clay Frick by Goldman's lover, Alexander Berkman, to the assassination of President William McKinley, in which Goldman was falsely implicated. The documents surrounding these events illuminate Goldman's struggle to balance anarchism's positive gains and its destructive costs. This volume introduces many of the themes that would pervade much of Goldman's later writings and speeches: the untold possibilities of anarchism; the transformative power of literature; the interplay of human relationships; and the importance of free speech, education, labor, women's freedom, and radical social reform.

Table of Contents

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
  2. pp. i-vi
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  1. Sponsors
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. List of Documents
  2. pp. xi-xiv
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  1. List of Illustrations
  2. pp. xv-xvi
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  1. Foreword
  2. pp. xvii-xx
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  1. Forging Her Place: An Introduction
  2. pp. 1-84
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  1. Editorial Practices
  2. pp. 85-90
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  1. Abbreviations
  2. pp. 91-92
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  1. Documents: 1890–1901
  2. pp. 93-488
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  1. Chronology
  2. pp. 489-515
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  1. Directory of Individuals
  2. pp. 516-562
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  1. Directory of Periodicals
  2. pp. 563-569
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  1. Directory of Organizations
  2. pp. 570-580
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  1. Selected Bibliography
  2. pp. 581-590
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  1. Emma’s List
  2. pp. 591-600
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. 601-618
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 619-660
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