Robert Owen and His Legacy
Distributed for University of Wales Press
288 pages
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6 x 9
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© 2011
- Contents
Table of Contents
Contents
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributions
Introduction
Noel Thompson and Chris Williams
1. Robert Owen: Reputations and Burning Issues
Ian Donnachie
2. Robert Owen and Some Later Socialists
Gregory Claeys
3. The Great Experiment: New Lanark from Robert Owen to World Heritage Site
Lorna Davidson and Jim Arnold
4. Robert Owen and Education
Francis J. O’Hagan
5. Robert Owen and Religion
Robert A. Davis
6. Owen and the Owenites: Consumer and Consumption in the New Moral World
Noel Thompson
7. Robert Owen as a British Politician and Parliamentarian
Margaret Escott
8. Robert Owen’s Unintended Legacy: Class Conflict
Ben Maw
9. Robert Owen and “The Greatest Discovery Ever Made by Man”
Geoffrey Powell
10. Exporting the Owenite Utopia: Thomas Powell and the Tropical Emigration Society
Malcolm Chase
11. Robert Owen and Wales
Chris Williams
Afterword: Looking Forward: Co-operative Politics or Can Owen Still Help?
Stephen Yeo
Select Bibliography
Index
List of Contributions
Introduction
Noel Thompson and Chris Williams
1. Robert Owen: Reputations and Burning Issues
Ian Donnachie
2. Robert Owen and Some Later Socialists
Gregory Claeys
3. The Great Experiment: New Lanark from Robert Owen to World Heritage Site
Lorna Davidson and Jim Arnold
4. Robert Owen and Education
Francis J. O’Hagan
5. Robert Owen and Religion
Robert A. Davis
6. Owen and the Owenites: Consumer and Consumption in the New Moral World
Noel Thompson
7. Robert Owen as a British Politician and Parliamentarian
Margaret Escott
8. Robert Owen’s Unintended Legacy: Class Conflict
Ben Maw
9. Robert Owen and “The Greatest Discovery Ever Made by Man”
Geoffrey Powell
10. Exporting the Owenite Utopia: Thomas Powell and the Tropical Emigration Society
Malcolm Chase
11. Robert Owen and Wales
Chris Williams
Afterword: Looking Forward: Co-operative Politics or Can Owen Still Help?
Stephen Yeo
Select Bibliography
Index
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