This chapter details the social, political and historical context out of which Italian anarchism emerged in New York City. Embracing a transnational approach, she charts the movement's early roots, its main leaders, geopolitical spaces and distinctive subculture starting from the late nineteenth century when the great Italian immigration to the United States began through the 1920s when the movement started to decline under the blows of governmental repression and postwar nativist calls for 100 percent Americanism.
Origins of American Sociology: The Social Science Movement in the United States. By L. L. and Jessie Bernard. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1943. Pp. 866. $6.50.
