Description: Real Utopia: Robert Owen (1771-1858), founder of New Harmony, Indiana - a utopian society on the American frontier (1825-1833). Biography of the social reformer from New Lanark, Scotland. Illustrated with contemporary sketches and drawings by Charles Alexandre Lesueur. Text and photos by Ritsert Rinsma.
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Charles-Alexandre Lesueur's sketchbooks are the enduring work of an exceptional "eyewitness to utopia." Lesueur experienced the utopian quest that was inherent in the early American Republic - the pursuit of happiness through the rights of liberty and justice, the progress in knowledge through discoveries in science, and the promise of perfection through experiments in communal living. In his sketchbooks, Lesueur left his legacy, thousands of meticulously detailed drawings - an unparalleled record of one ma
Bauke Ritsert Rinsma, Eyewitness to Utopia: Scientific Conquest and Communal Settlement in C.-A. LesueurÂ’s Sketches of the Frontier , drawings and sketches by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur, foreword by Edouard Philippe, Donald E. Pitzer and Ralph G. Schwarz, translated by Leslie J. Roberts (Heuqueville, France: Heiligon, 2019).
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Heiligon Publications - books and contact information - Bauke Ritsert Rinsma, Eyewitness to Utopia: Scientific Conquest and Comm