| Description |
1 online resource (271 pages) |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Robert Owen: Reputations and Burning Issues / Ian Donnachie -- 2. Robert Owen and Some Later Socialists / Gregory Claeys -- 3. Great Experiment: New Lanark from Robert Owen to World Heritage Site / 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 |
| Summary |
This volume consists of twelve essays from leading scholars and younger researchers on various aspects of the life, work and legacy of Robert Owen (1771-1858). A radical thinker and humanitarian employer Owen made a major contribution to nineteenth-century social movements including co-operatives, trade unions and workers' education. He was a pioneer of enlightened approaches to the education of children and an advocate of birth control. He established utopian communities in both the United Kingdom and the United States of America, and is often thought of as a leading early British socialist |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical reference (pages 259-260) and includes index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Owen, Robert, 1771-1858
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| SUBJECT |
Owen, Robert, 1771-1858 fast |
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Educators -- Wales -- Biography
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Education -- Great Britain -- History
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Social reformers -- Wales -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Educators.
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HISTORY -- Social History.
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Education
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Educators
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Social reformers
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Great Britain
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Wales
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collective biographies.
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Williams, Chris, 1963-
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Thompson, Noel W., 1951-
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| ISBN |
9780708324448 |
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0708324444 |
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9781783162932 |
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1783162937 |
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