A Spanish Commune

Jeanne Moisand is a professor of contemporary history at the University of Paris Nanterre. She is the co-author of 'Arise Ye Wretched of the Earth': the First International in a Global Perspective (Brill, 2018), and the author of Scènes capitales. Madrid, Barcelone et le monde théâtral fin de siècle (Casa de Velazquez, 2013).

Introduction

Chapter One. Unearthing the Event
The Voices That Count
Cartagena, A Strategic City
"Volunteers for the Republic"
Insurrection from below
The " junta of Public Safety"
The legacy of municipal struggles
Outside Leaders
A cosmopolitan revolution?
Imperial intervention
Cantonal Bérézina
Choosing Resistance
The "military elements" ready for surrender
The popular government of the new junta
The final confrontation

Part One. Becoming a Cantonalist
Chapter 2. The people of the canton
Approaching the canton via its exiles
A revolution of single men?
Working-class origins
Institutionalised populations
Rural cantonalists from across Spain
Peasants in arms
Antonete and Tomaset
Petrel, an internationalist village

Chapter 3. Workers, to arms!
Cartagena, a working-class city
The classes of the maestranza
The arsenal and the growth of the IWMA
Internationalist workers in the canton
A "social" canton?
A revolution in work
Caulkers and machinists in arms
From the arsenal to the ships
Devotion to the cause, and its limits

Chapter 4. Breaking the Chains
The Irons of Cartagena
The convicts, symbols of the canton
De facto recognition
Rebellious Conscripts
Refusing Conscription
NCOs, the driving force behind the canton
Asymmetrical Rewards
A Revolutionised Army

Chapter 5. The "pétroleuses" of the canton
A revolution in families
The cantonal "good husband"
Expelling women
Determined to stay
Single women and prostitutes
Combatant men, non-combatant women?
Cantonal democracy and women
Catholic Women as Good Citizens
The gender of "humanitarian" charity
The gendered division of labour in the fight
The evacuation of women and children

Chapter 6. A "Creole Dream"
From the Basque Country to Puerto Rico
The den of imperial reformers
For a Transatlantic Federation
Sauvalle, a creole in the canton
Cuban "cousins", between autonomy and independence
For a Federal and Social Empire?
Pedro Gutiérrez’s Cuban past
A small-time indiano
Federalism as a Legacy
Colonial and/or Class Emancipation
The Holguín canton

Chapter 7. The Echo of the Philippines
The Cavite puzzle
Two mutinies in the mirror
Workers, peasants and pirates in the revolt
Ready-Made Leaders
The buccaneer-journalists of Madrid
Republican Friendships
A Filipino Republican Dream
Solidarities among freemasons
From Cavite to Hong Kong and Paris

Chapter 8. The Archipelago of Punishment
Into the Spanish army in Cuba
The cantonal purge
The flaws of deportation
The deportees, between imperialism and resistance
The false refuge in Algeria
Removal and forced labour
Repatriations, expulsions, internments
Resourceful refugees

Conclusion. Why Gálvez did not become a Garibaldi
Index
Archives
Printed sources
Acknowledgements