Table of Contents

CoverTitleCopyrightContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. The Risorgimento and the Origins of Anarchist Violence2. Malfattori: Government Repression and Anarchist Violence3. Bombings, Insurrections, and Cosmopolitanism: Paolo Lega and Sante Caserio4. Crispi and the "Exceptional Laws"5. Anarchist Assassins: Acciarito, Angiolillo, and Lucheni6. Fatti di Maggio and Gaetano Bresci7. U.S. Investigation and Death of the GiustiziereConclusion: Terrorists or Giustizieri?NotesIndex

About the Author

Nunzio Pernicone was professor emeritus in the Department of History and Politics at Drexel University. He is the author of Italian Anarchism, 1864-1892 and Carlo Tresca: Portrait of a Rebel. He died in 2013. Fraser M. Ottanelli is a professor of history at the University of South Florida. His books include The Communist Party of the United States from the Depression to World War II and he is also coeditor of Letters from the Spanish Civil War: A U.S. Volunteer Writes Home.

Reviews

"Assassins Against the Old Order is a significant historical study and a tribute to an eminent scholar." --Ovunque Siamo
"An outstanding book that deftly moves from an analysis of economic, political, and social conditions to the human scale through intimate descriptions of the values, lives, and actions of the most famous anarchist assassins. In explaining anarchist violence, it shows that the assassins aimed at killing symbols of state power and not persons."--Spencer Di Scala, author of Europe's Long Century: Politics, Society, Culture 1900-2000
"Pernicone's posthumously published work will open many eyes about Italian anarchist and their attentats (actions). Readers who want a clear understanding of Italian anarchism and anarchists will be well repaid by reading Assassins against the Old Order. Highly Recommended." --Choice