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From New Lanark to Mound Bayou : Owenism in the Mississippi delta / Joel Nathan Rosen ; with foreword by Donald E. Pitzer.
- Title
- From New Lanark to Mound Bayou : Owenism in the Mississippi delta / Joel Nathan Rosen ; with foreword by Donald E. Pitzer.
- Author
- Rosen, Joel Nathan, 1961-
- Publication
- Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2011.
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| Text | Request in advance | HX696.M68 R67 2011 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxiv, 178 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Discovering Mound Bayou -- Revelation -- The view from the crowe's nest -- Existential nonsense -- Breakthrough -- a moment to reminisce -- Robert Owen -- After the fall -- Joseph E. Davis -- The Montgomerys -- Project objectives -- A brief statement on approach -- Early European socialism -- The modern liberation project -- The utopian turn -- Reactions from the communist left -- Enter Robert Owen -- An industrial evolution -- seminal influences -- Owen at New Lanark -- A new view of society -- Owenite education reform -- The impact of reform at New Lanark -- The end of Owenite New Lanark -- The new frontier -- New harmony -- The rounded bowl -- Enter Joseph E. Davis -- Davis' Owenite vision -- Davis and Owen in contrast -- Education at Davis Bend -- Benjamin Thornton Montgomery -- Montgomery & Sons -- A Montgomery Davis bend -- Dynasty in wane -- Enter Isaiah Thornton Montgomery -- Re-examining a legacy -- A near-radical experiment in town building -- Growth and enmity -- Managing convention -- The 1890 convention in its unique context -- . crisis -- Inherent contradictions -- Uneven legacies.
- ISBN
- 9781594605314 (alk. paper)
- 1594605319 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2010049198
- OCLC
- 693750934
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library