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

The Quest for the New Moral World

John Harrison

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN: 9780415557696
• eBook ISBN: 9781135191399
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

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.

Index

Both text and footnotes are indexed, but not the bibliography. Separate titles, in shortened form, are listed in alphabetical order under author. Newspapers and journals are indexed under title.

• Academy of Natural Sciences (Philadelphia) 37
• Account of the Desperate Affray in Blean Wood 100n
• Adams, John 87
• Adams, W. E., Memoirs of a Social Atom 225n
• Agrarianism 46, 56–7, 66, 68, 196
• Alton, Rev. John, Mr Owen’s Objections 155n, 162n
• Albertson, Ralph 164n
• Albion (Ill.) 165, 167
• Albury Park Conference 96
• Alcott, Bronson 128–9, 130
• Alcott House (Ham Common, Surrey) 128, 175
• Aldam, Heaton 183
• Alienation 50–1, 62
• Allegory, doctrine of 118
• Allen, William 20n, 22–3, 55n, 162;
  • Colonies at Home 23n, 24n;
  • Life 23n;
  • Philanthropist 54
• Allotments 23
• Allsop, Thomas 225
• Amalgamated Society of Engineers 124
• Amana Community (Iowa) 191
• Amberley, Viscount 253
• American Geological Society 37
• American Historical Review 54n, 80n
• American Philosophical Society, Proceedings 37n
• American Socialist 226n, 238n
• American Society for Promoting the Principles of the Reformation 131
• American Sociological Review 135n
• Analogy, doctrine of 117
• Anarchism 66
• Andrews, E. D., People...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Illustrations
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Philanthropic Origins
• The Definition of Socialism
• The Transmission of Owenism
• Building the New Moral World
• Anatomy of a Movement
• The Owenite Legacy
• Bibliographies
• Index