Robert Owen and Continental Europe - HAL-SHS - Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société
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Robert Owen and Continental Europe

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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.

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halshs-03255272 , version 1 (09-06-2021)

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Michael Drolet, Ludovic Frobert. Robert Owen and Continental Europe. History of European Ideas, 2021, 47 (2), pp.175-190. ⟨10.1080/01916599.2020.1798631⟩. ⟨halshs-03255272⟩
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