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Saint-Simonians in Nineteenth-Century France

From Free Love to Algeria

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  1. Pamela Pilbeam

    1. Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Pamela Pilbeam
    Pages 1-4

  3. A New Generation Planning for a Golden Age

    • Pamela Pilbeam
    Pages 5-24

  4. Religion and the Liberation of the Poorest Classes

    • Pamela Pilbeam
    Pages 25-43

  5. The Cost of Free Love

    • Pamela Pilbeam
    Pages 44-68

  6. Reconfiguring New Worlds

    • Pamela Pilbeam
    Pages 69-81

  7. Transnational Reformers

    • Pamela Pilbeam
    Pages 82-103

  8. Egypt: Orientalism and Modernisation

    • Pamela Pilbeam
    Pages 104-129

  9. Algeria 1830–1848: Conquest and Exploration

    • Pamela Pilbeam
    Pages 130-153

  10. Prolétaires into Propriétaires: The Promised Land, 1848

    • Pamela Pilbeam
    Pages 154-172

  11. Urbain and the Arab Empire

    • Pamela Pilbeam
    Pages 173-186

  12. Conclusion: Remembering the Saint-Simonians

    • Pamela Pilbeam
    Pages 187-193

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 194-241
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About this book

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. Through an examination of the lives, ideals and activities of these men and women, the book analyses the influence of the Saint-Simonians on nineteenth-century French society.

Reviews

“This monograph is engagingly written, with a good eye for narrative detail, which should make this study accessible to a pretty wide audience. … This is a well-written and interesting book, which will prove useful to students of nineteenth-century proto-socialism and utopian radicalism.” (Ambrogio A. Caiani, History - Journal of the Historical Association, December, 2015)

"One cannot fault the range of [Pilbeam's] research: not only the Arsenal (where the archives of Saint-Simon and Prosper Enfantin run into 47 volumes, plus the less often exploited Fonds d'Eichthal), but the Archives d'Outre-Mer too. The originality of the book is furthered by her use of primary printed sources by such authors as the hostile Edward Hancock, who was appalled by the Saint-Simonians' 'horrid doings' (91). What Pilbeam shows in her clear, occasionally mischievous, wideranging account is that where the Saint-Simonians succeeded, it was through compromise and shrewd lobbying of governmental and financial institutions. Much of

the history of the Saint-Simonians is a list of frustrated dreams and errors. It is often a hard fate to be a precursor." - Maura Hametz, Old Dominion University, USA

Authors and Affiliations

  • Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

    Pamela Pilbeam

About the author

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).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Saint-Simonians in Nineteenth-Century France

  • Book Subtitle: From Free Love to Algeria

  • Authors: Pamela Pilbeam

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137313966

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-57473-1Published: 30 January 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-36549-4Published: 01 January 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-31396-6Published: 02 January 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 241

  • Topics: Cultural History, Modern History, Gender Studies, European History, History of France, Social History

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