The Cambridge History of Socialism 2 Hardback Book Set

A comprehensive history of anarchism, syndicalism, social democracy, Labour, the New Left, and alternative trajectories in the Global South in one encompassing reconstruction.

Marcel van der Linden (Edited by)

9781108611336, Cambridge University Press

Multiple-component retail product, published 24 November 2022

1400 pages
23.5 x 16 x 7.4 cm, 2.61 kg

Divided into two volumes, The Cambridge History of Socialism offers an up-to-date critical survey of the socialist movements and political practices that have arisen thus far throughout the world. A much-needed corrective of the current state of the study of socialism from a historical perspective, the volumes use a wider geographical and temporal focus to track the changes and trends in global socialisms and to move beyond the European trajectory. Together they cover anarchism, syndicalism, social democracy, labour, the New Left, and alternative socialist movements in the Global South in one encompassing reconstruction. Featuring 55 essays by experts across the field, the volumes will serve as examples of the rich variety of socialist histories and, together, endeavour to reveal the major contours of its development.

Volume I: Introduction to Volume I
Part I. Beginnings
Section 1. Egalitarianism: 1. Mazdak and late antiquity 'socialism'
2. Egalitarianism in Islamic thought and praxis
3. Egalitarianism in Europe: Hussites, Anabaptists, Racovians, Hutterites and Diggers
4. The Taiping land program: creating a moral environment
Section 2. Early Socialisms: 5. Saint-Simon and Saint-Simonism
6. Robert Owen and Owenism
7. Charles Fourier and Fourierism
8. Etienne Cabet and the Icarian movement in France and the United States
9. Wilhelm Weitling and early German socialism
Section 3. The Arrival of the Hostile Siblings: Marxism and Anarchism: 10. The International Working Men's Association (1864–1876/77)
11. Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and early workers' movements
12. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's mutualist social science
13. Mikhail Bakunin and social anarchism
14. Peter Kropotkin and communist anarchism
Part II. Negating State-Power
Section 4. The North-Atlantic Region: 15. Anarchism and syndicalism in France
16. Spain in revolt: the revolutionary legacy of anarchism and anarcho-syndicalism
17. Anarchism and syndicalism in Italy
18. Anarchism and syndicalism in the United Kingdom
19. Anarchism and syndicalism in the United States
Section 5. Africa, Asia and Latin America: 20. Mexican socialism
21. Anarchism and syndicalism in Argentina
22. Anarchism and syndicalism in Brazil
23. Anarchism and syndicalism in South Africa
24. Anarchism and syndicalism in China
Section 6. Worldwide Connections: 25. Anarchist transnationalism
26. The global revival of anarchism and syndicalism. Volume II: Introduction to Volume II
Part I. Transforming State-Power
Section 1. Social Democratic Routes in Europe: 1. Social Democracy in Germany
2. Social Democracy in Austria
3. Social Democracy in Sweden
4. The British Labour Party
5. Social Democracy in Georgia
6. The General Jewish Workers' Bund
Section 2. Social Democratic Routes in Australia, the Americas and Asia: 7. The Australian Labor Party
8. Social Democracy in Argentina
9. The Partido dos Trabalhadores in Brazil
10. Still small voice: the persistence of the social-democratic idea in United States history
11. Social Democracy in Japan
Section 3. Worldwide Connections: 12. The Second International (1889–1914)
13. The Second International Reconstituted: the Labour and Socialist International (1923–1940)
14. The rise and fall of the Asian Socialist Conference (1952–56)
15. The Socialist International (1951–) and the Progressive Alliance (2013–)
16. Municipal socialism
Section 4. Southern Trajectories: 17. Socialism, Zionism, and settler colonialism in Israel/Palestine
18. Socialism in India Madhavan
19. The Lanka Sama Samaja Party
20. African Socialism
21. Arab Socialism
22. Chavismo: revolutionary Bolivarianism in Venezuela
Section 5. Left Socialisms: 23. The London Bureau
24. European left-socialist parties since the 1950s
25. The New Left as a global current since the late 1950s
Part II. Transversal Perspectives: 26. Socialism and colonialism
27. Socialism, gender and the emancipation of women
28. Socialism and ecology
29. Crises and futures of social democracy.

Subject Areas: Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies [JPFF], Anarchism [JPFB], History of ideas [JFCX], General & world history [HBG]