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Veröffentlichung:	August 2018
Genre:	Geschichte / Politik / Kultur
	B / Europe—History—1492- / European History / Great Britain—History / History / History of Britain and Ireland / History of Ideas / History of Modern Europe / History, Modern / Intellectual life—History / Intellectual Studies / Modern History / Social & cultural history / Social History
ISBN:	9783319877525
EAN-Code:	9783319877525
Verlag:	Springer International Publishing
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
Serie:	Palgrave Studies in Utopianism
Dimensionen:	H 210 mm / B 148 mm / D 11 mm
Gewicht:	246 gr
Seiten:	184
Zus. Info:	Paperback
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This book provides an account of how, in the years 1800-1825, enlightened entrepreneur and budding reformer Robert Owen used his cotton mill village of New Lanark, Scotland, as a test-bed for a set of political intuitions which would later form the bedrock of early socialism in Britain. Drawing from previously unpublished archival sources, this study shows that New Lanark was not merely on the receiving end of Owen's innovative brand of industrial paternalism, but also acted as a major source of inspiration for many aspects of his social system, including his desire to remodel society along communitarian lines. This book  therefore reaffirms the centrality of New Lanark as the cradle of socialism in Britain, and provides a contextualised, social history of Owen's ideas, tracing direct continuities between his early years as a paternalistic businessman, and his later career as a radical political leader. In doing so, it eschews the myth of New Lanark as a unidimensional 'model' villageand addresses the ambiguities of Owen's journey from paternalism to socialism.