Pamela Pilbeam. French Socialists Before Marx.
Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000. 259 pp. $24.95.
PAMELA PILBEAM, professor of French History at Royal Holloway, University of London, gives us a richly documented, thorough, lively picture of the philosophical and political views, actions and accomplishments of a variety of socialist leaders and groups between 1830 and 1852. The main groups (Fourierists, Saint-Simonians, Icarians) and their leaders are ...