This biography charts the life and fascinating long militant career of the French anarchist journalist, editor, theorist, writer, campaigner and educator Jean Grave (1854-1939), from the run up to the 1871 Paris Commune to the eve of the Second World War. Through Grave, it explores the history of the French and international anarchist communist movement over seven decades: its heroic period (1880-1890s), shaken by terrorist violence and intense repression, the emergence of syndicalism, national and international solidarity campaigns, the divisions over the First World War, and post-war division and relegation. Through Grave, a sedentary transnationalist, the study investigates the networked and transnational organisation of the anarchist movement, addressing the paradox of Grave's international influence alongside his deep rootedness in Paris by emphasizing the movement's global print culture and staggering circulations.

Offers a new approach to our understanding of Grave's life and the personal and activist networks that existed during this period Explores the importance and limitations of print culture in the development of multi-scalar anarchist organizations Reevaluates the transnational developments of the French anarchist movement and its integration into a broader progressive front

Autorentext

Constance Bantman (FRHistS) is a former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and a Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Surrey, UK. She has published extensively on anarchist transnationalism, with a focus on France and Britain, and is the author of The French Anarchists in London 1880-1914. Exile and Transnationalism in the First Globalisation (LUP, 2013).

Zusammenfassung
"Grave and his publications were central to transnational networks of international anarchism in the prewar era. ... this important book documents the central role of networks in the anarchist movement and the central role that Grave and his publications played in those networks at the turn of the century." (Jon Bekken,H-Net Reviews, h-net.org, May, 2022)

Inhalt
1 The Making of an Anarchist (1854-1879).- 2 The Spirit of Revolt (Kropotkin, 1880): Le Révolté and Paris's Anarchist Milieu in the 1880s.- 3 'Pyrotechnics or Philosophy?': The Early 1890s.- 4 New Times: 1895-1900s.- 5 Revolution, War, Ostracisation: 1905-1918.- 6 'Dreaming of Reorganising': After 1918.- 7 Conclusion.