The Utopian Alternative: Fourierism in Nineteenth-century AmericaThe 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
ORIGINS OF AMERICAN FOURIERISM | 13 |
Apostles of Association | 35 |
Roots of Popular Participation | 60 |
THE DOCTRINE OF ASSOCIATION | 91 |
The Utopian Alternative | 121 |
BUILDING THE NEW INDUSTRIAL WORLD | 151 |
Life in the Phalanxes | 178 |
Plan and central buildings of the North American Phalanx | 223 |
View of the Clermont Phalanx | 224 |
Marianne Dwight and Marie Howland | 225 |
Victor Considerant | 226 |
The Movement Retreats | 268 |
Campaigns with Labor | 292 |
The Last Communities | 321 |
THE DECLINE AND EVOLUTION OF UTOPIΑ | 333 |
Charles Fourier | 219 |
General view of a phalanstery | 220 |
Editorial staff of the New York Tribune | 221 |
Brook Farm | 222 |
New Directions of the 1850s | 348 |
Fourierism and the Coming of the Civil War | 368 |
The Fourierist Legacy | 384 |
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