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Visions of utopia : Nashoba, Rugby, Ruskin, and the "new communities" in Tennessee's past

Title
Visions of utopia : Nashoba, Rugby, Ruskin, and the "new communities" in Tennessee's past / by John Egerton.
Author
Egerton, John.
Publication
Knoxville : Published in cooperation with the Tennessee Historical Commission [by] University of Tennessee Press, ©1977.

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Description
95 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Tennessee three star books
Uniform Title
Tennessee three star books
Subject
  • Collective settlements > Tennessee > History
  • Utopias > History
  • Collective settlements
  • Utopias
  • Utopie
  • Gesellschaftsordnung
  • Gemeinschaftssiedlung
  • Alternativbewegung
  • Ideologie
  • Tennessee
  • USA
Genre/Form
History.
Note
  • Includes index.
Contents
Four centuries of new communities -- Nashoba: Frances Wright's experiment in "practical equality" -- Rugby: the "New Jerusalem" of Thomas Hughes -- Ruskin: Julius Wayland and "the co-operative commonwealth" -- Reflections on utopianism -- More resources on Tennessee's new communities.
ISBN
  • 0870492136
  • 9780870492136
LCCN
77001509
OCLC
  • ocm02798305
  • 2798305
  • SCSB-213484
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library