The utopian socialism of Charles Fourier spread throughout Europe in the mid-nineteenth century, but it was in the United States that it generated the most intense excitement. In this rich and engaging narrative, Carl J. Guarneri traces the American Fourierist movement from its roots in the religious, social, and economic upheavals of the 1830s, through its bold communal experiments of the 1840s, to its lingering twilight after the Civil War.
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The utopian socialism of Charles Fourier spread throughout Europe in the mid-nineteenth century, but it was in the United States that it generated the most intense excitement. In this rich and engaging narrative, Carl J. Guarneri traces the American...
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The Utopian Alternative is soundly researched, deftly crafted, and engagingly written. And it is sufficiently broad and balanced to make it a book that no scholar interested in the uncertain leap of the United States into modern capitalist culture can afford to overlook.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780801481970
Publisert
1994
Utgiver
Vendor
Cornell University Press
Vekt
907 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Dybde
30 mm
Aldersnivå
01, UP, G, 05, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Forfatter
Om bidragsyterne
Carl J. Guarneri is Associate Professor of History at Saint Mary's College of California.