Review of Travis Tomchuck, "Transnational Radicals: Italian Anarchists in Canada and the U.S. 1915-1940," and Kenyon Zimmer, "Immigrants Against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America"
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The past ten to fteen years or so have witnessed the emergence of a new and exciting trajectory in history and other humanistic disciplines known as the transnational turn.Whereas much of the political, social, and cultural history produced before this time tended to focus on particular national contexts, transnational history emphasizes the circulation of peoples, cultures, and ideas through complex, often diasporic, global networks-networks of communication, trade, transportation, migration, and the like -that transcend national borders.Perhaps not surprisingly, transnational approaches have gured prominently in the recent and quite unprecedented proliferation of scholarship on the political, social, and cultural history of anarchism, much of it the work of younger scholars like Tomchuk and Zimmer.In contrast with older histories such as Berry's A History of the French Anarchist Movement, 1917 to 1945 or Pernicone's Italian Anarchism, 1864-1892, transnational studies like those discussed in this review regard anarchism as a movement in movement [and] of movements, worldwide in scale but composed of overlapping groups of networks loosely demarcated by characteristics such as location, language, and nationality (Zimmer, p. 2).The result in both cases is a far richer and more nuanced analysis of the complex histories of immigrant anarchist movements in North America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".