Posted in History of Science, Reflections on Feb 1st, 2008 No Comments »
Ever since the December holiday I’ve had a hard time getting up in the morning. Maybe it’s all the Mucinex and sleep aids I took the week I got back and had that sinus thing. Anyway, those who know my penchant for getting up at 5am and going to the office know this [...]
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 [...]
