The Utopian Alternative: Fourierism in Nineteenth-Century America - Hardcover

Guarneri, Carl J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0801424674 ISBN 13: 9780801424670

Publisher: Cornell University Press, 1991

Synopsis

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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From the Back Cover:

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. 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. Guarneri demonstrates that Fourierist communitarianism was not a colorful sideshow to the main events of American history, but a serious and influential attempt to restructure the emergent society of individualism along cooperative line's.

About the Author:

Carl J. Guarneri is Associate Professor of History at Saint Mary's College of California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0801424674
• ISBN 13: 9780801424670
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 544