Saint-Simonians in Nineteenth-Century France: From Free Love to Algeria - Couverture souple

Pilbeam, Pamela M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1349365491 ISBN 13 : 9781349365494

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Saint-Simonians were a group of young engineers and doctors who proposed original solutions to the social and banking crises of the early nineteenth century. They were unique in the 1820s in attracting women, including workers, into their movement, and attempting to change the world through love, including the sexual 'liberation' of women. Some metamorphosed from idealistic reformers to create the first socialist groups in France, while others spearheaded bank reform, railway building and urban transformation in the 1850s. They took the lead in the colonisation of Algeria, in popular journalism, business, and in organising international exhibitions. They planned the most notable engineering project of the time, the Suez Canal, and a project that took over a century more to be dug, the Channel tunnel. Through an examination of the lives, ideals and activities of these men and women, Pilbeam analyses the influence of the Saint-Simonians on nineteenth-century French society.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Pamela Pilbeam is Professor Emeritus of French History, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, and Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow, 2007-2009. She has published extensively on nineteenth-century European history, including Madame Tussaud and the History of Waxworks (2006, 2nd edition), and French Socialists before Marx: Workers, Women and the Social Question in France (2000).

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1349365491
• ISBN 13: 9781349365494
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 252