Jean Grave and the Networks of French Anarchism, 1854-1939

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).

“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)

• 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.