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Article: Robert Owen and the Commencement of the Millennium: A Study of the Harmony Community.(Review)
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- Utopian Studies
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- March 22, 1999
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Edward Royle. Robert Owen and the Commencement of the Millennium: A Study of the Harmony Community. Manchester: U of Manchester P, 1998. xi + 274 pp.
"EDWARD ROYLE is Reader in History at the University of York," the book jacket tells us. Like this sole line of biography, Royle's prose style is modest, direct and lucid--complementing the author's fine scholarly unraveling of the complex doings and often misunderstood thoughts of Robert Owen.
Royle's primary concern is the Harmony community, established at Queenwood, East Tytherly (1839-45), which has received belated and scant attention from scholars. He writes: "Queenwood was the only major community ...