Research Catalog

Title

Maclure of New Harmony : scientist, progressive educator, radical philanthropist / Leonard Warren.

Author

Warren, Leonard, 1924-

Publication

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2009], ©2009.

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Details

Description

xii, 343 pages, 13 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm

Subjects

• United States > Social conditions > To 1865
• Social reformers > United States > Biography
• Educators > United States > Biography
• Geologists > United States > Biography
• Maclure, William, 1763-1840
• New Harmony (Ind.) > History > 19th century
• Utopias > United States > History > 19th century
• Geological surveys > United States > History > 19th century
• Educational change > United States > History > 19th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Origins and the Making of a Life -- 2. Philadelphia (1796-1800) -- 3. Political and Economic Philosophy -- 4. European Sojourn (1800-1808) -- 5. The Maclurean Era of American Geology -- 6. Introduction of Progressive Education to the United States -- 7. The Grand Tour of Europe (1809-1815) -- 8. Patron of the Natural Sciences -- 9. Spanish Years and Return to America -- 10. Robert Owen, Maclure, and the Utopian Commune -- 11. Harmonie to New Harmony -- 12. A Boatload of Knowledge -- 13. Education in New Harmony -- 14. Trouble in Paradise -- 15. Out of the Ashes -- 16. Withdrawal to Mexico -- 17. Crippling Losses of Madame Fretageot and Thomas Say -- 18. New Harmony Adrift -- 19. The Working Men's Institute and the Death of William Maclure.

ISBN

• 9780253353269 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0253353262 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2008051604
• 40016929508

OCLC

• ocn261176962
• 261176962
• SCSB-5481820

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries