Robert Owen, prophet of the poor : essays in honour of the two hundredth anniversary of his birth

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Robert Owen, prophet of the poor : essays in honour of the two hundredth anniversary of his birth

edited by Sidney Pollard and John Salt ; with an introduction by Sidney Pollard

Bucknell University Press, 1971

1st American ed

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • A new view of Mr. Owen / by J.F.C. Harrison
  • Robert Owen and revolutionary politics / by C. Tsuzuki
  • Robert Owen and the community experiments / by R.G. Garnett
  • Owen's reputation as an educationist / by H. Silver
  • Robert Owen and radical culture / by E. Yeo
  • J. E. Smith and the Owenite movement, 1833-4 / by J. Saville
  • Robert Owen, cotton spinner: New Lanark, 1800-25 / by A.J. Robertson
  • Owen in 1817: the Millennialist movement / by W.H. Oliver
  • Owen's mind and methods / by M. Cole
  • Owen and America / by W.H.G. Armytage
  • Images and echoes of Owenism in nineteenth-century France / by H. Desroche
  • The impact of Owen's ideas on German social and cooperative thought during the nineteenth century / by E. Hasselmann

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Why has Robert Owen continued to occupy the attention of historians in the twentieth century? What changing significance has been seen in his work? What was his relationship with the great social and political movements of his age? To what extent was the Owenite 'message' of importance outside Great Britain? These and other questions are taken up in this study.

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