Robert Owen’s Experiment at New Lanark
Robert Owen’s Experiment at New Lanark

Author: Ophélie Siméon

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-10-16

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 3319642278

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This book provides an account of how, in the years 1800-1825, enlightened entrepreneur and budding reformer Robert Owen used his cotton mill village of New Lanark, Scotland, as a test-bed for a set of political intuitions which would later form the bedrock of early socialism in Britain. Drawing from previously unpublished archival sources, this study shows that New Lanark was not merely on the receiving end of Owen’s innovative brand of industrial paternalism, but also acted as a major source of inspiration for many aspects of his social system, including his desire to remodel society along communitarian lines. This book therefore reaffirms the centrality of New Lanark as the cradle of socialism in Britain, and provides a contextualised, social history of Owen’s ideas, tracing direct continuities between his early years as a paternalistic businessman, and his later career as a radical political leader. In doing so, it eschews the myth of New Lanark as a unidimensional ‘model’ village and addresses the ambiguities of Owen’s journey from paternalism to socialism.

Report of the British and Foreign School Society to the General Meeting, May, 1816
Report of the British and Foreign School Society to the General Meeting, May, 1816

Author: British And Foreign School Society

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-07

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 9780260504920

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Excerpt from Report of the British and Foreign School Society to the General Meeting, May, 1816: With an Appendix, and a List of Subscribers and Benefactors It is therefore with sensations of great delight, that we turn from a picture so truly melancholy, to review the great and successful efforts which have been made during the last eighteen months. In a former Report your Committee had the satisfaction to state the success of the first efforts of the Com mittee of Instruction in Paris, and the zeal and activity with which they were pursumg their grand object. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Report of the British and Foreign School Society
Report of the British and Foreign School Society

Author: British And Foreign School Society

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-29

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780266928232

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Excerpt from Report of the British and Foreign School Society: To the General Meeting, Dec. 12, 1816 Your Committee trust, that from this account of their proceedings, it will appear, that they are not insensible of the importance of the charge committed to their care; that, though still struga gling against many difficulties, arising from the veryjimited state of their Funds, they have beeri anxious tot neglect none of the means of doing good placed within their reach. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Report of the British and Foreign School Society, to the General Meeting, November 1815
Report of the British and Foreign School Society, to the General Meeting, November 1815

Author: British And Foreign School Society

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-31

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9781528332293

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Excerpt from Report of the British and Foreign School Society, to the General Meeting, November 1815: With an Appendix Resolved, That this'meeting unfeignedly rejoices in the success which has already attended the introduction into F rance' of the System of Education'ptomoted by this Society, under a full conviction thatevery School established on the comprehensive plan of this Institution, will, in the words of the Decree Qf' the French Government, issued on the 3d instant, contribute to bettering the condition of the poor, and produce the most happy influence on the general habits and public order of society. And that a copy of this Resolution, signed by the Chairman, be transmitted to the Committee formed in Paris. On the motion ois Royal Highness the duke OF kent, seconded by samuel Woons, Esq. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.