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Gregory Claeys
How the utopian tradition offers answers to today’s environmental crises
In the face of Earth’s environmental breakdown, it is clear that technological innovation alone won’t save our planet. A more…
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Robert Owen (1771-1858) was the founder of British socialism, and one of the most influential reformers in Britain and America in the first half of the 19th century. This book…
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Robert Owen has often been described as the ‘father of English Socialism’. This ten-volume set presents a collection of Owenite Socialist and co-operative material. The volumes are arranged in chronological…
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Gregory Claeys explores the reception of the French Revolution in Britain through the medium of its leading interpreters. Claeys argues that the major figures - Thomas Paine, Edmund Burke, Mary…
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This book investigates Thomas Paine’s social and political thought in both its British and American moments. It examines the ways in which Paine’s ideas were understood. The book restores him…
Containing over 100 pamphlets, this edition provides a resource for the study of Chartism, covering the main areas of Chartist activity, including agitation for the Charter itself, the Land Plan…
The texts in this set offer an interpretation of nineteenth century culture by contemporary writers that is incredibly revealing to modern researchers from both a literary and historical standpoint.
An accessible introduction to the key trends in nineteenth-century thought within philosophy, history, political thought, economics, religion and the social sciences, as well as feminism and imperialism. This Companion will…
From the publication of More’s Utopia in 1516 to present day literary evocations of terrifying futures, this Companion traces the historical development and evolution of utopianism. Covering all major themes…
Citizens and Saints is a study of the profound rupture in the language of reform and revolution which occurred with the rise of socialism. Focusing upon British Owenite socialism, Professor…
This collection of eighteenth-century British utopias shows how the image of the ideal society was used as a form of social criticism, and particularly as a means of focusing on…
This collection of British utopias spans the period from the age of Swift and Defoe to nineteenth-century socialist and constitutionalist texts.
Gregory Claeys concentrates on Paine’s most influential work (and one of the best-known political tracts of all time) the Rights of Man. He is careful, however, to place this work…
This collection of literary utopias calls for a complete overhaul of existing assumptions about utopian writing in this period
In the period 1700-1850, the history of utopian thought cast light on ideas of property-holding, community, and social and political reform movements, including those for the extension of rights to…
The Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Thought provides essential information on, and a critical interpretation of, nineteenth-century thought and nineteenth-century thinkers.
The aim of this collection is to draw together the most rare, important and representative of the Chartist writings published in pamphlet form.
An extraordinary overview of Marx’s intellectual influence from a leading historian of socialism
What does Marxism really mean? How did one man’s ideas have such an influence on the world…
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Providing information on, and a critical interpretation of, 19th-century thought and thinkers, this project takes as its temporal boundary the period 1789 to 1914. It covers social and political thinking…
Provides historical context to the philosophical issues and debates that have shaped attitudes toward democracy, citizenship, rights, property, duties, justice, equality, community, law, power, gender, race, and legitimacy over the…
A worldwide survey on the idea of utopia, from classical mythology to contemporary science fiction.
Gregory Claeys, Marie Le Mouel, Simone Tagliapietra, Guntram B. Wolff, Georg Zachmann
This book provides a rigorous and accessible portrayal of the macroeconomics of decarbonisation. The book is written in the form of a textbook so to be accessible to a wide…
Gregory Claeys (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Imperial Sceptics provides a highly original analysis of the emergence of opposition to the British Empire. Tracing critical strands of anti-imperial thought from 1850 to the First World War, Gregory…
Giving prominence for the first time to Mill’s abiding concern with Malthusianism and its impact on his key arguments respecting liberty, Mill and Paternalism explores Mill’s strong commitment to population…
