The Modern School Movement,9781904859093

The Modern School Movement

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ISBN13: 9781904859093
ISBN10: 1904859097
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-01-30
Publisher(s): A K Pr Distribution
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Summary

Modern Schools sought to abolish all forms of authority, and to usher in a new society.

Author Biography

Paul Avrich is Distinguished Professor of History, Queens College and the Graduate School, the City University of New York (retired)

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations i
Preface iii
PART I: NEW YORK
ONE The Martyrdom of Ferrer
3(34)
Francisco Ferrer y Guardia
Freedom in Education
The Escuela Moderna of Barcelona
Propaganda by the Deed
The Tragic Week
TWO The Francisco Ferrer Association
37(38)
Launching an Organization
The Modern School Movement
Earlier Experimental Schools
The First Modern Schools
THREE The Ferrer School of New York
75(46)
St. Mark's Place
East Twelfth Street
Will Durant
East 107th Street
Will and Ariel
Cora Bennett Stephenson
FOUR Rebels and Artists
121(62)
The Academy Humane
Personalities
Hippolyte and Sadakichi
Radical Centers
Art and Anarchy
The Free Theatre
Robert Henri
The Modernists
The Modern School Magazine
FIVE Three Anarchists
183(20)
Leonard Abbott
Harry Kelly
Joseph Cohen
SIX Lexington Avenue
203(38)
The Unemployed
Ludlow
Dynamite
The Hutchinsons
Aftermath
PART II: STELTON
SEVEN The Early Years
241(40)
Pioneers
Stony Ford
The Stelton School
Joseph Ishill
The Dicks
Time of Troubles
EIGHT Elizabeth and Alexis Ferm
281(36)
Aunty Ferm
Uncle Ferm
The Children's Playhouse
Stelton
Departure
NINE Mohegan
317(24)
A New Colony
The Mohegan School
George Seldes and Rudolf Rocker
Thoreauvian Anarchists
Breakup
TEN The Declining Years
341(42)
The Dicks
The Ferms
The Novement
Abbott, Kelly, and Cohen
ELEVEN Conclusior
383(4)
Archival Materials 387(23)
Index 410

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