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title might lead one to think there's a threepart and equal division of attention to the politics of anarchy, the social science of geography and discussions of modernity.
But there's less than a onethird share in it about geographythough certainly some, along with attention to ethnography, biology and divers other subjects.


M. Reclus deserves attention for his forwardthinking and the breadth of his interests he places admirably in history if one excuses his apologies for some of his comrades.
But his thoughts are early contributions to trends in progress, and not as groundbreaking as his translatoradmirers would have it,

Thepage introduction by the pair that translated the book is the Anarchy, Geography, Modernity's weakest point, They point out those aspects of M, Reclus's writings that stand out from the commoner currents of his time, but they do not indicate the degree to which the anarchist's expressions conform to those of his European contemporaries and their joint predecessors.
he tardado más de lo que me gustaría en leer este libro porque al parecer en el trabajo no se concentra una mucho, pero tiene cosas muy muy interesantes que siguen siendo relevantes teóricamente a día de hoy.
eso sí, hay que pasarle el filtro de unas cuantas décadas en cuestiones de eurocentrismo,

me gusta saber que siempre ha existido otro tipo de geopolítica posible, alejada del asco que da la disciplina en su formato más extendido.
Reclus es sin duda una de la almas más hermosas que han pisado Europa, su forma se entender la naturaleza y el papel de la humanidad en ella es sin duda bastante avanzada para su época.
Además su compromiso militante y rigor científico para la época lo hacen una persona digna de ser leída Anarchy, Geography, Modernity is the first comprehensive introduction to the thoughts and philosophy of Elisee Reclus, the great French anarchist geographer and political theorist.
Reclus is best known for Universal Geography, a masterwork that he spent two decades completing, This volume analyses Universal Geography and presents his groundbreaking critique of all forms of domination: not only capitalism, the state and authoritarian religion, but also patriarchy, racism, technological domination and the domination of nature.
Words I can surely live by:
sitelink pitzer. edu/Anarchist Élisée Reclus, also known as Jacques Élisée Reclus, was a renowned French geographer, writer and anarchist, He produced hisvolume masterwork La Nouvelle Géographie universelle, la terre et les hommes Universal Geography, over a period of nearlyyears.
Inhe was awarded the prestigious Gold Medal of the Paris Geographical Society for this work, despite his having been banished from France because of his political activism.
Reclus was the second son of a Protestant pastor and his wife, From the family of fourteen children, several, including his brother and fellow geographer Onésime Reclus, went on to achieve renown either as men of letters, politicians or members of the learned professions.
Reclus began his educat Élisée Reclus, also known as Jacques Élisée Reclus, was a renowned French geographer, writer and anarchist, He produced hisvolume masterwork La Nouvelle Géographie universelle, la terre et les hommes "Universal Geography", over a period of nearlyyears.
Inhe was awarded the prestigious Gold Medal of the Paris Geographical Society for this work, despite his having been banished from France because of his political activism.
Reclus was the second son of a Protestant pastor and his wife, From the family of fourteen children, several, including his brother and fellow geographer Onésime Reclus, went on to achieve renown either as men of letters, politicians or members of the learned professions.
Reclus began his education in Rhenish

Prussia, and continued higher studies at the Protestant college of Montauban, He completed his studies at University of Berlin, where he followed a long course of geography under Carl Ritter, Withdrawing from France because of political events of December, he spent the next six yearstraveling and working in Great Britain, the United States, Central America, and Colombia.
Arriving in Louisiana in, Reclus worked for about two and a half years as a tutor to the children of Septime and Félicité Fortier at their plantation Félicité, located aboutmiles upriver from New Orleans.
He recounted his passage through the Mississippi river delta and impressions of antebellum New Orleans and the state in Fragment d'un voyage á Louisiane, published in.
On his return to Paris, Reclus contributed to the Revue des deux mondes, the Tour du monde and other periodicals, a large number of articles embodying the results of his geographical work.
Among other works of this period was the short book Histoire dun ruisseau, in which he traced the development of a great river from source to mouth.
Fromhe published La Terre description des phénomènes de la vie du globe in two volumes, During thesiege of Paris, Reclus shared in the aerostatic operations conducted by Félix Nadar, and also served in the National Guard.
As a member of the Association Nationale des Travailleurs, he published a hostile manifesto against the government of Versailles in support of the Paris Commune ofin the Cri du Peuple.
Continuing to serve in the National Guard, now in open revolt, Reclus was taken prisoner on April, and on Novemberwas sentenced to deportation for life.
Because of intervention by supporters from England, the sentence was commuted in Januaryto perpetual banishment from France, After a short visit to Italy, Reclus settled at Clarens, Switzerland, where he resumed his literary labours and produced Histoire dune montagne, a companion to Histoire dun ruisseau.
There he wrote nearly the whole of his work, La Nouvelle Géographie universelle, la terre et les hommes, "an examination of every continent and country in terms of the effects that geographic features like rivers and mountains had on human populationsand vice versa," This compilation was profusely illustrated with maps, plans, and engravings.
It was awarded the gold medal of the Paris Geographical Society in, An English edition appeared simultaneously, also involumes, the first four by E, G. Ravenstein, the rest by A, H. Keane. Reclus's writings were characterized by extreme accuracy and brilliant exposition, which gave them permanent literary and scientific value, sitelink.