Robert Owen and Continental Europe

Michael Drolet () and Ludovic Frobert ()
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Michael Drolet: Worcester College - University of Oxford
Ludovic Frobert: TRIANGLE - Triangle : action, discours, pensée politique et économique - ENS de Lyon - École normale supérieure de Lyon - Université de Lyon - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - IEP Lyon - Sciences Po Lyon - Institut d'études politiques de Lyon - Université de Lyon - UJM - Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: This introduction examines the intellectual, political, economic, and social context to the reception of Robert Owen's ideas, and Owenism more generally, in Continental Europe. The introduction describes how Owen's ideas attracted significant interest in the years following the Napoleonic Wars, particularly in France, and discusses how the French reception of his ideas served as a filter and medium through which his ideas were disseminated throughout Continental Europe. The article describes the individual contributions to this special issue and traces the story of how Owen's ideas never attracted in Continental Europe the widespread interest they enjoyed in Britain, Ireland, or America.

Keywords: economy; Europe; Owen; Owenism; liberalism; republicanism; socialism; utopianism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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Published in History of European Ideas, 2021, 47 (2), pp.175-190. ⟨10.1080/01916599.2020.1798631⟩

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DOI: 10.1080/01916599.2020.1798631

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