The American social theorist Albert Brisbane (1809-1890) was the leading advocate of the kind of socialism known in the United States as Fourierism.Albert Brisbane was born on Aug. 22, 1809, in Batavi...
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Albert Brisbane (22 August 1809-28 April 1890), social theorist, economist, and reformer, was born in Batavia, New York, and died in Richmond, Virginia. Brisbane spent his childhood in Batavia, a smal...
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During the 1840s, utopian communities sprang up throughout the United States. The largest utopian movement was that of the Associationists, whose communities, or "phalanxes," were based upon the teach...
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