New Harmony movement.

With the collaboration of Charles A. Prosser in the preparation of the educational chapters.

By George Browning Lockwood

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Publish Date

1971

Publisher

AMS Press]

Language

eng

Pages

404

Description:

A somewhat academic history of the movement. Chapter headings are: -New Harmony’s Place in History -The Rise of the Rappites -The Rappites in Indiana -The Rappite Hegira -Robert Owen and the Industrial Revolution -Agitation in England -The New Moral World -The Founding of New Harmony -The Preliminary Society -”The Half-way House” -The “Permanent Community” -The Social System on Trial -The Duke of Saxe-Weimar at New Harmony -Two Views of New Harmony -Community Progress -Community Disintegration -Robert Owen’s Farewell Addresses -The Ten Lost Tribes of Communism -Woman at New Harmony -The Educational Experiment -Josiah Warren -Robert Owen’s Later Life -New Harmony’s Later History -The MacLure Library Movement -Robert Dale Owen -Appendix: Sources

subjects: Harmony Society, History, New-Harmony, Ind

People: Robert Owen (1771-1858)

Places: New Harmony (Ind.)

Times: early 19th century