M Seidman
Biographic Data
| ID | 11283 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Seidman |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Seidman |
| SIGNATURE | SEIDMAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina Wilmington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4121-9848 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Working on Rights: Labor Protest and Democratic Opposition in Spain and Poland, 1960–1990
Mes années folles: Révolte et nihilisme du peuple adolescent après Mai 68
Mes années folles: Révolte et nihilisme du peuple adolescent après Mai 68." Modern & Contemporary France, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States by James C. Scott
Book Review| January 01 2021 Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States by James C. Scott Scott, James C., Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017), 312 pp. Michael Seidman Michael Seidman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2021) 27 (1): 111. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-8723153 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissio…
Gabriel Jackson (1921-2019)
© S. Faber, Oberlin College, 2010 Gabriel Jackson, one of the most prominent and worthiest American hispanists and hispanophiles, died on 3 November 2019 at the age of 98. He was born into a cultivated Jewish family in Mount Vernon, NY, in 1921. Gabe retained strong memories of the heated dinner-table discussions between his Socialist father and Communist older brother when the Spanish Civil War erupted in 1936. He graduated from Harvard College,…
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy by David Graeber
Review Article| January 01 2020 The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy by David Graeber Graeber, David, The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy (New York: Melville House, 2016), 272 pp. Michael Seidman Michael Seidman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (1): 164. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-7899976 Cite Icon …
Karl Polanyi: A Life on the Left by Gareth Dale
Review Article| January 01 2020 Karl Polanyi: A Life on the Left by Gareth Dale Dale, Gareth, Karl Polanyi: A Life on the Left (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016), 400 pp. Michael Seidman Michael Seidman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (1): 179. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-7900132 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Seidman; Karl Polany…
Victorious Counterrevolution: The Nationalist Effort in the Spanish Civil War
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Opening the Gates: The Lip Affair, 1968–1981
Reid’s sophisticated and complete treatment of the Affaire Lip is undoubtedly ‘definitive’. In 1962, 1000 workers of the Lip firm in Besançon produced 600,000 watches, making it the seventh largest watchmaker in the world. The author’s periodization demonstrates the hold of what French historians call—somewhat incongruously—‘les années 68’. ‘The Lip Affair was the last national expression of workers as the creators of a new world’. The unprofitab…
Histoire du Front populaire: L’échappée belle
The recent exhibition ‘1936 le Front populaire en photographie,’ (Hôtel de Ville, Paris, 19 May to 23 July 2016) celebrated the French Popular Front on the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of its electoral victory, accession to power, and subsequent strike waves. The Socialist mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, introduced the display by claiming that the strikes during the Popular Front permitted ‘l’union historique de la gauche, d’abord contre l…
An Anarchist History
According to James C. Scott, in The Art of Not Being Governed, the resistance of Southeast Asian "hill peoples" to state subordination manifested itself in their deliberate abandonment of both sedentary agriculture and literacy. He argues that "tribality" (group-generated state evasion) is the polar opposite of "peasantry" (state-controlled agriculture). The hill peoples' foraging and swiddening were thus political choices. Scott's anthropologica…
The Longest Dictatorship
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Your Children Will Be Next: Bombing and Propaganda in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 * Mentiras necesarias: La batalla por la opinion britanica durante la Guerra Civil
Both these monographs scrutinise issues of cultural history and, more precisely, the effects of propaganda during and after the Spanish Civil War. Stradling's re-examination of the opposing Republican and Nationalist campaigns of aerial bombardment challenges widely-held views. In line with most of the historiography, the author asserts that throughout the war Nationalist aviation tactics may have included ‘deliberate terrorism against civilians’…
The Love Wars: Parisian Struggles (1962–68)
Studies of the 1960s continue to be dominated by the focus on the annus mirabilis of 1968. Given the traditional emphasis on key dates in French history—1789, 1848, 1871, 1936—the concentration on 1968 is understandable, but it is has had the regrettable effect of largely neglecting the early sixties. Consequently, this article examines the social/cultural changes that occurred in student dormitories of the Paris region between 1962 and 1968. The…
The Spirit of '68: Rebellion in Western Europe and North America, 1956-1976
Journal Article The Spirit of ’68: Rebellion in Western Europe and North America, 1956–1976 Get access The Spirit of ’68: Rebellion in Western Europe and North America, 1956–1976, by Gerd-Rainer Horn (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2007; pp. 254. £35). Michael Seidman Michael Seidman University of North Carolina, Wilmington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIII, Issue 501, Apri…
Social History and Antisocial History
Research Article| January 01 2007 Social History and Antisocial History Michael Seidman Michael Seidman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2007) 13 (1): 40–49. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2006-028 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Seidman; Social History and Antisocial History. Common Knowledge 1 January 2007; 13 (1): 40–49. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/…
Food Coercion in Revolution and Civil War: Who Wins and How They Do It
Revolutions have provoked not only important social changes and bloody civil wars, but a huge literature. There is controversy and confusion on how to integrate seemingly disparate modes of explanation into a coherent analysis: social structure, the decisions and policies of key actors (be they leaders or organized entities like parties and assemblies), and the choices made by ordinary people. Structural theories have proven useful for describing…
Making the French Unemployed Work, 1930-1936
What may be termed productivism – the belief in work as a necessary, if not desirable, social discipline – has influenced historians of the unemployed. In the 1930s the movement of chômeurs and some individual unemployed fought against productivism and struggled for higher wages and guaranteed incomes. These unemployed persons became the heirs of the moral economy and thereby challenged fundamental values and practices without which – according t…
Creating Spaniards: Culture and National Identity in Republican Spain
Journal Article Creating Spaniards: Culture and National Identity in Republican Spain Get access Creating Spaniards: Culture and National Identity in Republican Spain by Sandie Holguín. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. 304 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $21.95. Michael Seidman Michael Seidman University of North Carolina—Wilmington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume…
The Pre-May 1968 Sexual Revolution
L'A. montre que la revolution sexuelle attribuee a Mai 68 etait deja largement amorcee avant les evenements. Pour ce faire, il examine les conditions de la mixite dans les residences universitaires de Nanterre et d'Antony durant les annees qui precederent 1968
Agrarian Collectives during the Spanish Revolution and Civil War
The history of collectivization during the Spanish civil war has been controversial from its inception. Contemporaries who were sympathetic to anarchism and hostile to Communism authored the first accounts of workers’ and peasants’ collectives. Subsequent Republican and Communist authors dismissed or ignored this largely apologetic literature. The rise of the New Left in the 1960s revived interest and empathy for the revolutionary experience. In …
Quiet Fronts in the Spanish Civil War
Notes1. Cf. the monographs of José Manuel Martínez Bande, especially La ofensiva sobre Valencia (Madrid, 1977), 75.2. John Keegan, The Face of Battle (London, 1976); Richard Holmes, Acts of War (New York and London, 1985); Charles Carlton, Going to the Wars: The Experience of the British Civil Wars, 1638–51 (London and New York, 1992).3. Ramón Salas Larrazábal, Historia del Ejército popular de la República (Madrid, 1973), 423, 472, 538; Hugh Thom…
Individualisms in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War
Revolutionary Collectivism: Parisian Poster Art in 1968
Workers in a Repressive Society of Seductions: Parisian Metallurgists in May-June 1968
Much of the historiography of May-June 1968 has understandably focused on the student movement. After all, it was the student activists who began the chain of events that, many either hoped or feared, would lead to revolution in France. Furthermore, the novelty and energy of the student actions and ideas distinguished 1968 from previous protests and revolutions. Given the fascination with student activists' radical and revolutionary desires, the …
Women's Subversive Individualism in Barcelona during the 1930s
A focus on politically uncommitted working-class women alters the traditional historiographical emphasis on collective militancy in the Spanish Revolution. A large number of females acted ambivalently towards the cause, and revolutionaries were forced to confront women's individualism. In the search for the collective identities of class and gender, this individualism has been ignored. Instead of neglecting or condemning the personal, historians …
Creating Spaniards: Culture and National Identity in Republican Spain
Journal Article Creating Spaniards: Culture and National Identity in Republican Spain Get access Creating Spaniards: Culture and National Identity in Republican Spain by Sandie Holguín. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. 304 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $21.95. Michael Seidman Michael Seidman University of North Carolina—Wilmington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume…
The Spirit of '68: Rebellion in Western Europe and North America, 1956-1976
Journal Article The Spirit of ’68: Rebellion in Western Europe and North America, 1956–1976 Get access The Spirit of ’68: Rebellion in Western Europe and North America, 1956–1976, by Gerd-Rainer Horn (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2007; pp. 254. £35). Michael Seidman Michael Seidman University of North Carolina, Wilmington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIII, Issue 501, Apri…
Food Coercion in Revolution and Civil War: Who Wins and How They Do It
Revolutions have provoked not only important social changes and bloody civil wars, but a huge literature. There is controversy and confusion on how to integrate seemingly disparate modes of explanation into a coherent analysis: social structure, the decisions and policies of key actors (be they leaders or organized entities like parties and assemblies), and the choices made by ordinary people. Structural theories have proven useful for describing…
The Birth of the Weekend and the Revolts against Work: The Workers of the Paris Region during the Popular Front (1936-38)
The Popular Front period in France has often been described by both Left and Right as a revolution manquee, a missed opportunity for the working class to take control of the means of production. When workers occupied and staged sit-down strikes in the factories during May and June, 1936, commentators of various political persuasions believed that the workers were on the road to revolution. Yet despite an unprecedented one million workers occupyin…
Workers in a Repressive Society of Seductions: Parisian Metallurgists in May-June 1968
Much of the historiography of May-June 1968 has understandably focused on the student movement. After all, it was the student activists who began the chain of events that, many either hoped or feared, would lead to revolution in France. Furthermore, the novelty and energy of the student actions and ideas distinguished 1968 from previous protests and revolutions. Given the fascination with student activists' radical and revolutionary desires, the …
Women's Subversive Individualism in Barcelona during the 1930s
A focus on politically uncommitted working-class women alters the traditional historiographical emphasis on collective militancy in the Spanish Revolution. A large number of females acted ambivalently towards the cause, and revolutionaries were forced to confront women's individualism. In the search for the collective identities of class and gender, this individualism has been ignored. Instead of neglecting or condemning the personal, historians …
Towards a History of Workers' Resistance to Work: Paris and Barcelona during the French Popular Front and the Spanish Revolution, 1936-38
and Barcelona during the Popular Front governments in France and throughout the revolution in Spain reveal essential continuities in working-class life. Absenteeism, indiscipline and other manifestations of a reluctance to work existed before the victory of the Popular Front in France and the outbreak of war and revolution in Spain, but it is significant that this resistance persisted even after the parties and unions which claimed to represent t…
The Spanish Civil War: A Never - ending Fascination
Despite the tens of thousands of books and articles written on the Spanish Civil War, these two volumes demonstrate the continuing vitality of the scholarship on that conflict. For generations, the historiography was overwhelmingly political and diplomatic, but more recently, cultural history-often with a strong political inflection-has posed new questions and promoted different areas of investigation. Presently, social history, which was never c…
The Birth of the Weekend and the Revolts against Work: The Workers of the Paris Region during the Popular Front (1936-38)
The Popular Front period in France has often been described by both Left and Right as a revolution manquee, a missed opportunity for the working class to take control of the means of production. When workers occupied and staged sit-down strikes in the factories during May and June, 1936, commentators of various political persuasions believed that the workers were on the road to revolution. Yet despite an unprecedented one million workers occupyin…
Work and Revolution: Workers' Control in Barcelona in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-38
The enormous literature on the Spanish Revolution and civil war is dominated by a political, military or diplomatic perspective. Few historians, whether Communist, Republican,franquista, anarchist, syndicalist, Trotskyist, or even those lacking a clear political perspective, have written a social history of the events leading to the Revolution and the Revolution itself. This article will attempt partially to fill the vacuum by analyzing the econo…
Towards a History of Workers' Resistance to Work: Paris and Barcelona during the French Popular Front and the Spanish Revolution, 1936-38
and Barcelona during the Popular Front governments in France and throughout the revolution in Spain reveal essential continuities in working-class life. Absenteeism, indiscipline and other manifestations of a reluctance to work existed before the victory of the Popular Front in France and the outbreak of war and revolution in Spain, but it is significant that this resistance persisted even after the parties and unions which claimed to represent t…
The Unorwellian Barcelona
Women's Subversive Individualism in Barcelona during the 1930s
A focus on politically uncommitted working-class women alters the traditional historiographical emphasis on collective militancy in the Spanish Revolution. A large number of females acted ambivalently towards the cause, and revolutionaries were forced to confront women's individualism. In the search for the collective identities of class and gender, this individualism has been ignored. Instead of neglecting or condemning the personal, historians …
Workers in a Repressive Society of Seductions: Parisian Metallurgists in May-June 1968
Much of the historiography of May-June 1968 has understandably focused on the student movement. After all, it was the student activists who began the chain of events that, many either hoped or feared, would lead to revolution in France. Furthermore, the novelty and energy of the student actions and ideas distinguished 1968 from previous protests and revolutions. Given the fascination with student activists' radical and revolutionary desires, the …
Individualisms in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War
Revolutionary Collectivism: Parisian Poster Art in 1968
Quiet Fronts in the Spanish Civil War
Notes1. Cf. the monographs of José Manuel Martínez Bande, especially La ofensiva sobre Valencia (Madrid, 1977), 75.2. John Keegan, The Face of Battle (London, 1976); Richard Holmes, Acts of War (New York and London, 1985); Charles Carlton, Going to the Wars: The Experience of the British Civil Wars, 1638–51 (London and New York, 1992).3. Ramón Salas Larrazábal, Historia del Ejército popular de la República (Madrid, 1973), 423, 472, 538; Hugh Thom…
Agrarian Collectives during the Spanish Revolution and Civil War
The history of collectivization during the Spanish civil war has been controversial from its inception. Contemporaries who were sympathetic to anarchism and hostile to Communism authored the first accounts of workers’ and peasants’ collectives. Subsequent Republican and Communist authors dismissed or ignored this largely apologetic literature. The rise of the New Left in the 1960s revived interest and empathy for the revolutionary experience. In …
The Pre-May 1968 Sexual Revolution
L'A. montre que la revolution sexuelle attribuee a Mai 68 etait deja largement amorcee avant les evenements. Pour ce faire, il examine les conditions de la mixite dans les residences universitaires de Nanterre et d'Antony durant les annees qui precederent 1968
Creating Spaniards: Culture and National Identity in Republican Spain
Journal Article Creating Spaniards: Culture and National Identity in Republican Spain Get access Creating Spaniards: Culture and National Identity in Republican Spain by Sandie Holguín. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. 304 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $21.95. Michael Seidman Michael Seidman University of North Carolina—Wilmington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume…
Making the French Unemployed Work, 1930-1936
What may be termed productivism – the belief in work as a necessary, if not desirable, social discipline – has influenced historians of the unemployed. In the 1930s the movement of chômeurs and some individual unemployed fought against productivism and struggled for higher wages and guaranteed incomes. These unemployed persons became the heirs of the moral economy and thereby challenged fundamental values and practices without which – according t…
Food Coercion in Revolution and Civil War: Who Wins and How They Do It
Revolutions have provoked not only important social changes and bloody civil wars, but a huge literature. There is controversy and confusion on how to integrate seemingly disparate modes of explanation into a coherent analysis: social structure, the decisions and policies of key actors (be they leaders or organized entities like parties and assemblies), and the choices made by ordinary people. Structural theories have proven useful for describing…
Social History and Antisocial History
Research Article| January 01 2007 Social History and Antisocial History Michael Seidman Michael Seidman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2007) 13 (1): 40–49. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2006-028 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Seidman; Social History and Antisocial History. Common Knowledge 1 January 2007; 13 (1): 40–49. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/…
The Love Wars: Parisian Struggles (1962–68)
Studies of the 1960s continue to be dominated by the focus on the annus mirabilis of 1968. Given the traditional emphasis on key dates in French history—1789, 1848, 1871, 1936—the concentration on 1968 is understandable, but it is has had the regrettable effect of largely neglecting the early sixties. Consequently, this article examines the social/cultural changes that occurred in student dormitories of the Paris region between 1962 and 1968. The…
The Spirit of '68: Rebellion in Western Europe and North America, 1956-1976
Journal Article The Spirit of ’68: Rebellion in Western Europe and North America, 1956–1976 Get access The Spirit of ’68: Rebellion in Western Europe and North America, 1956–1976, by Gerd-Rainer Horn (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2007; pp. 254. £35). Michael Seidman Michael Seidman University of North Carolina, Wilmington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIII, Issue 501, Apri…
Your Children Will Be Next: Bombing and Propaganda in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 * Mentiras necesarias: La batalla por la opinion britanica durante la Guerra Civil
Both these monographs scrutinise issues of cultural history and, more precisely, the effects of propaganda during and after the Spanish Civil War. Stradling's re-examination of the opposing Republican and Nationalist campaigns of aerial bombardment challenges widely-held views. In line with most of the historiography, the author asserts that throughout the war Nationalist aviation tactics may have included ‘deliberate terrorism against civilians’…
The Longest Dictatorship
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
An Anarchist History
According to James C. Scott, in The Art of Not Being Governed, the resistance of Southeast Asian "hill peoples" to state subordination manifested itself in their deliberate abandonment of both sedentary agriculture and literacy. He argues that "tribality" (group-generated state evasion) is the polar opposite of "peasantry" (state-controlled agriculture). The hill peoples' foraging and swiddening were thus political choices. Scott's anthropologica…
Histoire du Front populaire: L’échappée belle
The recent exhibition ‘1936 le Front populaire en photographie,’ (Hôtel de Ville, Paris, 19 May to 23 July 2016) celebrated the French Popular Front on the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of its electoral victory, accession to power, and subsequent strike waves. The Socialist mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, introduced the display by claiming that the strikes during the Popular Front permitted ‘l’union historique de la gauche, d’abord contre l…
Opening the Gates: The Lip Affair, 1968–1981
Reid’s sophisticated and complete treatment of the Affaire Lip is undoubtedly ‘definitive’. In 1962, 1000 workers of the Lip firm in Besançon produced 600,000 watches, making it the seventh largest watchmaker in the world. The author’s periodization demonstrates the hold of what French historians call—somewhat incongruously—‘les années 68’. ‘The Lip Affair was the last national expression of workers as the creators of a new world’. The unprofitab…
Victorious Counterrevolution: The Nationalist Effort in the Spanish Civil War
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Gabriel Jackson (1921-2019)
© S. Faber, Oberlin College, 2010 Gabriel Jackson, one of the most prominent and worthiest American hispanists and hispanophiles, died on 3 November 2019 at the age of 98. He was born into a cultivated Jewish family in Mount Vernon, NY, in 1921. Gabe retained strong memories of the heated dinner-table discussions between his Socialist father and Communist older brother when the Spanish Civil War erupted in 1936. He graduated from Harvard College,…
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