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Article: Ian Donnachie. Robert Owen: Owen of New Lanark and New Harmony.(Book Review)
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- Utopian Studies
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- March 22, 2003
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East Lothian, Scotland: Tuckwell Press, 2000. xii + 290 pp. $23.95 (paper).
HERE IS YET ANOTHER BIOGRAPHY of Robert Owen (1771-1858)--it has, after all, been a half-century since the last major monographic biography has appeared. Given the number of biographies already available, Ian Donnachie has delimited a particular task for this work: it focuses on Owen's life up to 1830--which is roughly equivalent in scope to the first volume of Frank Podmore's two-volume 1906 biography, the standard. Donnachie's explicit aim in the work is both to synthesize the available scholarship (including much since Podmore) into a single account, and to extend it with his own ...