The Utopian Alternative: Fourierism in Nineteenth-Century America

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 religiou...

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Main Author: Guarneri, Carl J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press [2018]
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Summary: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
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mrz 2019)
Physical Description:1 online resource 15 b&w illustrations, 2 maps
ISBN:9781501725289
DOI:10.7591/9781501725289

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