more on-line anarcho texts

Folks--

those of us doing research on anarchism have a few new resources, it seems. The Bibliotheque National Française has a number of texts available online at Gallica ( http://gallica.bnf.fr/Metacata.htm) by anarchist authors such as

--Elisée Reclus (including his Correspondance, L'Homme et la Terre, L'Anarchie, etc.)

--André Léo (La Guerre Sociale, Couper la Cable, etc.)

--Pierre Kropotkine (Communisme et anarchie, La révolution sera-t-elle collectiviste?, etc.)

--Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (De la célébration du dimanche, Si les traités de 1815 ont cessé d'exister?, etc.)

--Michel Bakounine (A mes amis russes et polonais, La révolution sociale ou La dictature militaire, etc.; search for "Bakunin")

--Louise Michel (Mémoires, Contes et légendes, Légendes et chants de gestes canaques, etc.)

--Bernard Lazare (Le nationalisme juif, Les Porteurs des torches, etc.)

--Adolphe Retté (Oeuvres complètes, Réflexion sur l'anarchie, Promenades subversives, etc.)

Meanwhile, on the American front, Google Books ( http://books.google.com) has made a number of works by anarchists available in full, searchable page reproductions, such as those of

--Emma Goldman (The Social Significance of the Modern Drama, Marriage and Love, Anarchism and Other Essays)

--Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (including more of his major works than Gallica!)

--Mikhail Bakunin (God and the State, Statism and Anarchy, etc.)

--Bernard Lazare (Un Erreur Judiciare, Antisemitism: Its History and Causes)

--Peter Kropotkin (The Conquest of Bread, Modern Science and Anarchism)

--Adolphe Retté (Le Symbolisme)

--Elisée Reclus (The Earth and Its Inhabitants, Nouvelle géographie universelle, etc.)

All of the above are available to anyone. Google is also making more contemporary, in-copyright books available on a piecemeal basis for those who sign up for "accounts" -- a service which is "free," as usual, but with a catch. This way, one can get select peeks at some of the most exciting new works -- Benedict Anderson's _Under Three Flags_, the anthology _I Am Not A Man, I Am Dynamite!_, and so on -- but, alas, never the whole picture. This "limited preview" feature is more useful for corporate marketing than for radical scholarship. Thus, while it makes a number of older works available for archival research, Google, the cynical abettor of Chinese totalitarianism (see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4645596.stm), takes back with one hand what it gives with the other.

We continue to take what we can get. Fortunately, we can get more all the time.

--Jesse.