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The Utopian Alternative
Fourierism in Nineteenth-Century America
Carl J. Guarneri (Author)
9780801481970
Paperback / softback, published 28 March 1994
544 pages
23.4 x 15.6 x 3 cm, 0.907 kg
The Utopian Alternative is soundly researched, deftly crafted, and engagingly written. And it is sufficiently broad and balanced to make it a book that no scholar interested in the uncertain leap of the United States into modern capitalist culture can afford to overlook. Carl Guarneri has vastly advanced our understanding of American 'Utopianism' with this magisterial study of its most important secular manifestation, the Fourierite movement. This work should stand as a scholarly landmark for another half-century. With this book, Carl Guarneri takes his place as one of the leading American historians of his generation.
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.