The Utopian Alternative: Fourierism in Nineteenth-Century America (Cornell Paperbacks)

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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.