Cultural Writing. Translated by Paul Sharkey. The finest single volume history of European Anarchism is finally available in English in Paul Sharkey's elegant translation. Drawing on decades of research, Alexandre Skirda traces anarchism as a major political movement and ideaology across the 19th and 20th centuries. Critical and engaged, opinionated and witty, he offers biting and incisive portraits of the major thinkers, and more crucially, the organizations they inspired, influenced, came out of, and were spurned by.