Heavens below : Utopian experiments in England, 1560-1960

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Heavens below : Utopian experiments in England, 1560-1960

by W.H.G. Armytage

(Studies in social history / editor, Harold Perkin)

Routledge, 2007, c1961

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Includes index

First published in 1961

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: set ISBN 9780415402668

Description

First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Table of Contents

1. Ancient Crete: A Social History: From Early Times until the Roman Occupation R. F. Willetts 2. Army in Victorian Society G. Harries-Jenkins 3. Army of Charles II John Childs 4. The Attack on 'Feudalism' in Eighteenth Century France J. Q. C. Mackrell 5. Churches and the Working Classes in Victorian England Kenneth Inglis 6. English Landed Society in the Eighteenth Century G. E. Mingay 7. English Landed Society in the Nineteenth Century F. N. L. Thompson 8. English Parish Clergy on the Eve of the Reformation P. Heath 9. The English Poor in the XVIIIth Century: A Study in Social and Administrative History from 1662 to 1782 Dorothy Marshall 10. Heavens Below: Utopian Experiments in England 1560-1960 W. H. G. Armytage 11. A History of Shopping Dorothy Davis 12. An Imperial War and the British Working Class R. Price 13. Leisure and Class in Victorian England: Rational Recreation and the Contest for Control, 1830-1885 P. Bailey 14. The Leviathan of Wealth: The Sutherland Fortune in the Industrial Revolution E. Richards 15. Packhorse, Wagon and Post: Land Carriage and Communications under the Tudors and Stewarts J.E.V. Crofts 16. Prelates and People R. A. Soloway 17. The Profession of English Letters J. W. Saunders 18. The Purchase of Paradise: The Social Function of Aristocratic Benevolence J. T. Rosenthal 19. Religious Toleration in England 1787-1833 Ursula Henriques 20. The Rise of the Technocrats: A Social History W. H. G. Armytage 21. A Social History of English Music E. D. Mackerness 22. A Social History of the French Revolution Norman Hampson 23. Society and Politics in Germany 1500-1750 G. Benecke 24. Sport and Society: Elizabeth to Anne Dennis Brailsford 25. The Trade in Lunacy William Ll. Parry-Jones 26. Victorian Attitudes to Race C. Bolt 27. Western India in the Nineteenth Century: A Study in the Social History of Maharashtra Ravinder Kumar
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ISBN 9780415412902

Description

First published in 2006. This book tells a number of plain tales of those who tried to save the English behind their collective backs under the term of Utopian Experiments in England between 1560 and 1960. It looks at the influences of the church to community experiments and groups, the ideas of Robert Owen, William Allen, George Mudie, Abraham Combe and more.

Table of Contents

  • Phase 1 Sect to Socialism 1560-1800
  • Chapter 1 Filaments of Light
  • Chapter 2 Diggers
  • Chapter 3 Quakers
  • Chapter 4 The Philadelphians
  • Chapter 5 Camisards
  • Chapter 6 Moravians
  • Chapter 7 Revelations and Revolution
  • Phase 2 The Owenite Apocalypse
  • Chapter 8 The Genesis of the Parallelogram
  • Chapter 9 Experiments at Brighton
  • Chapter 10 Spa Fields
  • Chapter 11 Orbiston
  • Chapter 12 Ralahine
  • Chapter 13 William Maclure and New Harmony
  • Chapter 14 The Religion of Community
  • Chapter 15 Manea Fen and Tytherly
  • Phase 3 The Heyday of Experiment
  • Chapter 16 Ham Common and the Transcendentalists
  • Chapter 17 Hugh Doherty and the Phalanstery
  • Chapter 18 The Hanwell Communitorium
  • Chapter 19 John Minter Morgan's Schemes
  • Chapter 20 The Chartist Land Colonies
  • Chapter 21 From Toad Lane to Pottersville
  • Chapter 22 Liverpool: Gateway to Zion
  • Chapter 23 Esoteric Communities in Victorian England
  • Phase 4 The Rustic Vision
  • Chapter 24 The St. George's Guild
  • Chapter 25 Anarchist Colonies

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  • NCID
    BA79147629
  • ISBN
    • 0415412900
    • 0415402662
  • LCCN
    68048988
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    ix, 458 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
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