Books by Temma Kaplan

Focusing on local movements to achieve equal distribution of social, economic, and political rights and natural resources, Democracy examines how ordinary and extraordinary men and women of different cultural and religious backgrounds have formed and attempted to sustain institutions that would permit them to live together in equality and peace.

Through a mosaic of personal accounts, newspaper articles, feminist theory and critiques of social and legal philosophy, Temma Kaplan aims to show the faces behind grassroots democracy who are changing the notion of human rights.

Combines the methods of anthropology and cultural history to examine the civic culture of Barcelona between 1888 and 1939 and shows how artists like Picasso, Miro, Casals and anarchists, and other political activists shaped and were influenced by the artistic and political culture of Barcelona.