Robert Graham (historian)

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Robert Graham is the editor of Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas, a two volume collection of anarchist writings from ancient China to the present day. Volume 1, subtitled "From Anarchy to Anarchism," covers the period from 300CE to 1939.[1] Volume 2, subtitled "The Anarchist Current," will cover the period from 1939 to 2005. The book is published by Black Rose Books [2]. Each selection is introduced by Robert Graham, placing each author and selection in their historical and ideological context.

Robert Graham is also the author of many articles on the history of anarchist ideas and contemporary anarchist theory, including the introduction to the Pluto Press edition of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's The General Idea of the Revolution in the 19th Century (1989),[3] "The Role of Contract in Anarchist Ideology," in For Anarchism (Routledge, 1989), ed. David Goodway, "The Anarchist Contract," in Reinventing Anarchy, Again (AK Press, 1996), ed. Howard Ehrlich,[4] and "Reinventing Hierarchy: The Political Theory of Social Ecology,"[5] in Anarchist Studies, Volume 12, No. 4 (2004).