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The Utopian Alternative: Fourierism in Nineteenth-Century America
The Utopian Alternative Fourierism in NineteenthCentury America Author:Carl J. Guarneri Winner of the 1992 Society of Historians of the Early American Republic Book Award 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 mo... more »vement 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.« less