Divided into two volumes, The Cambridge History of Socialism offers an up-to-date critical survey of the socialist movements and political practices that have arisen thus far throughout the world. A much-needed corrective of the current state of the study of socialism from a historical perspective, the volumes use a wider geographical and temporal focus to track the changes and trends in global socialisms and to move beyond the European trajectory. Together they cover anarchism, syndicalism, social democracy, labour, the New Left, and alternative socialist movements in the Global South in one encompassing reconstruction. Featuring 55 essays by experts across the field, the volumes will serve as examples of the rich variety of socialist histories and, together, endeavour to reveal the major contours of its development.
Volume I: Introduction to Volume I; Part I. Beginnings; Section 1. Egalitarianism: 1. Mazdak and late antiquity 'socialism'; 2. Egalitarianism in Islamic thought and praxis; 3. Egalitarianism in Europe: Hussites, Anabaptists, Racovians, Hutterites and Diggers; 4. The Taiping land program: creating a moral environment; Section 2. Early Socialisms: 5. Saint-Simon and Saint-Simonism; 6. Robert Owen and Owenism; 7. Charles Fourier and Fourierism; 8. Etienne Cabet and the Icarian movement in France and the United States; 9. Wilhelm Weitling and early German socialism; Section 3. The Arrival of the Hostile Siblings: Marxism and Anarchism: 10. The International Working Men's Association (1864-1876/77); 11. Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and early workers' movements; 12. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's mutualist social science; 13. Mikhail Bakunin and social anarchism; 14. Peter Kropotkin and communist anarchism; Part II. Negating State-Power; Section 4. The North-Atlantic Region: 15. Anarchism and syndicalism in France; 16. Spain in revolt: the revolutionary legacy of anarchism and anarcho-syndicalism; 17. Anarchism and syndicalism in Italy; 18. Anarchism and syndicalism in the United Kingdom; 19. Anarchism and syndicalism in the United States; Section 5. Africa, Asia and Latin America: 20. Mexican socialism; 21. Anarchism and syndicalism in Argentina; 22. Anarchism and syndicalism in Brazil; 23. Anarchism and syndicalism in South Africa; 24. Anarchism and syndicalism in China; Section 6. Worldwide Connections: 25. Anarchist transnationalism; 26. The global revival of anarchism and syndicalism. Volume II: Introduction to Volume II; Part I. Transforming State-Power; Section 1. Social Democratic Routes in Europe: 1. Social Democracy in Germany; 2. Social Democracy in Austria; 3. Social Democracy in Sweden; 4. The British Labour Party; 5. Social Democracy in Georgia; 6. The General Jewish Workers' Bund; Section 2. Social Democratic Routes in Australia, the Americas and Asia: 7. The Australian Labor Party; 8. Social Democracy in Argentina; 9. The Partido dos Trabalhadores in Brazil; 10. Still small voice: the persistence of the social-democratic idea in United States history; 11. Social Democracy in Japan; Section 3. Worldwide Connections: 12. The Second International (1889-1914); 13. The Second International Reconstituted: the Labour and Socialist International (1923-1940); 14. The rise and fall of the Asian Socialist Conference (1952-56); 15. The Socialist International (1951-) and the Progressive Alliance (2013-); 16. Municipal socialism; Section 4. Southern Trajectories: 17. Socialism, Zionism, and settler colonialism in Israel/Palestine; 18. Socialism in India Madhavan; 19. The Lanka Sama Samaja Party; 20. African Socialism; 21. Arab Socialism; 22. Chavismo: revolutionary Bolivarianism in Venezuela; Section 5. Left Socialisms: 23. The London Bureau; 24. European left-socialist parties since the 1950s; 25. The New Left as a global current since the late 1950s; Part II. Transversal Perspectives: 26. Socialism and colonialism; 27. Socialism, gender and the emancipation of women; 28. Socialism and ecology; 29. Crises and futures of social democracy.
Marcel van der Linden is Senior Fellow at the International Institute of Social History and emeritus professor of Social Movement History at the University of Amsterdam. He was elected President of the International Social History Association three times, and has (co)authored and (co)edited over fifty books on socialist and labour history.
