Robert Owen and the Owenites in Britain and America (Routledge Revivals)
Robert Owen and the Owenites in Britain and America (Routledge Revivals)

Author: John Harrison

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-09-10

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 1135191409

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Robert Owen and the Owenites were associated with the rise of an early industrial society in Britain and with the development of an agricultural, frontier society in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century. This book, originally published in 1969, was the first to use both British and American source material, and tells the story of Robert Owen and the movement associated with his name, from the standpoint of comparative social and intellectual history. The book directs new light on Owenism, and at the same time illuminates general problems of the history of social movements and social change in modern societies.

Urban Workers in the Early Industrial Revolution
Urban Workers in the Early Industrial Revolution

Author: Robert Glen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-08-13

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1000639843

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This title, first published in 1984, focuses primarily on the early Industrial Revolution (c. 1780-1820) in the Stockport district. As the Industrial Revolution in England was the first instance of successful industrialisation, it can still provide many social and economic lessons and also furnish essential evidence for continuing debate over ideology and theory. Therefore, this title will be of interest to students of both history and economics.

Biography Index
Biography Index

Author: Bea Joseph

Publisher:

Published: 1971

Total Pages: 928

ISBN-13:

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A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines.

Eve and the New Jerusalem
Eve and the New Jerusalem

Author: Barbara Taylor

Publisher: Virago

Published: 2016-04-07

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 0349007284

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A new edition of Barbara Taylor's classic book, with a new introduction. In the early nineteenth century, radicals all over Europe and America began to conceive of a 'New Moral World', and struggled to create their own utopias, with collective family life, communal property, free love and birth control. In Britain, the visionary ideals of the Utopian Socialist, Robert Owen, attracted thousands of followers, who for more than a quarter of a century attempted to put theory into practice in their own local societies, at rousing public meetings, in trade unions and in their new Communities of Mutual Association. Barbara Taylor's brilliant study of this visionary challenge recovers the crucial connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. In doing so, it opens the way to an important re-interpretation of the socialist tradition as a whole, and contributes to the reforging of some of those early links between feminism and socialism.

Intellectuals and Public Life
Intellectuals and Public Life

Author: Leon Fink

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13:

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Combining history with social theory, this book offers a bold reassessment of the role of radical intellectuals in public life. It explores the potential impact of intellectuals working for social and political change and is important for everyone concerned with such contemporary issues as the future of higher education, the transformation of the public intellectual in Western and non-Western societies, the collapse of socialism, and the paralysis of liberalism. Illuminating many facets of the relationship between the life of the mind and the life of action, these interdisciplinary essays consider diverse aspects of the role of intellectuals in revolutionary movements, state-centered reforms, and colonial and postcolonial settings. After discussions of how the intellectual as a social type has acquired its politically charged character, chapters are devoted to radical thinkers in England, Germany, Russia, and France. The place of intellectuals in the United States is explored in essays on Progressive liberalism, labor reform, women's rights, and the work of W. E. B. Du Bois. The book concludes with essays on the significance of liberation theology and the ideology of the Chinese student protest movement of 1989.