"By focusing on letterpress Ferguson presents a novel way of looking at the history of Anarchism. Letterpress as a way of working generates an active hands-on ambition to build and embody new and creative ideas. . . . Ferguson's history promotes the message that meaningful radical development builds from face-to-face, hand-to-hand, cooperative endeavour."–
Peter Good,
Kate Sharpley Library "Ferguson's half-century of involvement in radical politics and her painstaking research in anarchist collections (many of them ill organized) qualifies her to write this dense but compelling history. . . . Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty."–
T. S. Martin,
Choice "In fluid prose, Ferguson offers a fresh historical look at the anarchist movement through a focus on lesser-known figures and their lesser-known labours, including printing and letter-writing."–
Layla Saleh,
LSE Review of Books "Letterpress Revolution is essential reading. It is a result of exhaustive and detailed research that clarifies instead of obscures. ... It enriches anarchist history allowing us to appreciate the nuances and bravery of people as well as their complexities."
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Barry Pateman,
KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library "Kathy Ferguson has written a wonderful book, an essential contribution to the history of classical anarchism–with her eyes firmly on the present–and a must-read for anyone interested in the movement's political, social, cultural and material history, and in the women and men who made it, quite literally."–
Constance Bantman,
Anarchist Studies "In Kathy Ferguson's rigorous, compelling and exquisitely poised analysis of anarchist print culture, we find journals and readers, presses and printers, letters and archivists stepping forth from the margins of anarchist history to take center stage as the generative, consolidating sustenance of the anarchist movement in its classical prime."–
Rebecca van der Post,
Theory & Event "Ferguson's wide-ranging archival research and obvious love for the history and culture of anarchism offers readers a richly detailed glimpse into an underground history still relevant today. Scholars in print culture, radical history and theories of craft will find in Letterpress Revolution an ally and an inspiration for future work on anarchism, resistance movements and maker culture."
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Catherine W. Hollis,
Publishing Research Quarterly
