Title & Author:

Robert Owen and his legacy / edited by Noel Thompson and Chris Williams.

Publication:

Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2011.

Description:

271 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-260) and index.
Robert Owen: reputations and burning issues -- Ian Donnachie -- Robert Owen and some later socialists -- Gregory Claeys -- The great experiment: New Lanark from Robert Owen to World Heritage site -- Lorna Davidson and Jim Arnold -- Robert Owen and education -- Francis J. O'Hagan -- Robert Owen and religion -- Robert A. Davis -- Owen and the Owenites: consumer and consumption in the new moral world -- Noel Thompson -- Robert Owen as a British politician and Parliamentarian -- Margaret Escott -- Robert Owen's unintended legacy: class conflict -- Ben Maw -- Robert Owen and 'the greatest discovery ever made by man' -- Geoffrey Powell -- Exporting the Owenite Utopia: Thomas Powell and the Tropical Emigration Society -- Robert Owen and Wales -- Chris Williams.

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ISBN:

9780708324424 (cased)
0708324428 (cased)
9780708324431 (pbk.)
0708324436 (pbk.)
(e-book)
9780708324448
0708324444

Subject:

Owen, Robert, 1771-1858.
Owen, Robert, 1771-1858 Influence.
Educators Wales Biography.
Education Great Britain History.
Social reformers Wales Biography.
Éducateurs Pays de Galles Biographies.
Réformateurs sociaux Pays de Galles Biographies.
Education.
Educators.
Social reformers.
Éducation Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Great Britain.
Wales.

Form/genre:

Conference publications.
Biographies.
History.

Added entries:

Williams, Chris, 1963-
Thompson, Noel W., 1951-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 277692
Call No.: BIB 212625
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available