Posted in British History, History of Science, Reflections, What's goin' on on Oct 11th, 2007 No Comments »
Lots of people keep asking me, about Robert Owen: Why did he fail? Why did partners pull out of New Lanark? Why was money lost at New Harmony? The answers to the questions are complicated, but one tack I’ve taken from the beginning is to ask whether or not these ventures actually ended in failure.
When [...]
Posted in British History, History of Science, Reflections, What's goin' on on Sep 17th, 2007 No Comments »
The dissertation prospectus is done and has been distributed to all committee members. In a nutshell, my research is about early socialism and its connections to the early social sciences as well as to other kinds of social reform. I argue that the schemes we call “Utopian socialism” were less Utopian than they were [...]
Posted in British History on Sep 17th, 2007 No Comments »
While I’m in Britain I might check out the collection of the Overstone Library at Reading University. I’ll be in Reading to visit Esther and will need to be entertained while she’s in class. This is a collection of 740 items (dating from 1757-1862) which belonged to John Ramsay McCulloch, a Scottish journalist and political [...]
