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Visions Utopia: Nashoba, Rugby, Ruskin, New Communities (Tennessee Three Star Books)
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Paperback. Num Pages: 104 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HB; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 8. Weight in Grams: 186.
Visionaries of all ages and places have pursued Utopias, dreaming impossible dreams of starting over in new communities fashioned more closely to their ideals. In Visions of Utopia, John Egerton traces the fascinating history of the experimental communities founded by such groups in Tennessee. He focuses in particular on three extraordinary colonies of the 19th century, each of them widely known in its time: Nashoba, and interracial settlement near Memphis in 1825; Rugby, an English cooperative community on the Cumberland Plateau in 1880; and Ruskin, a socialist community in Dickson County in 1894.
John Egerton is a native Southerner ... Read more
Visionaries of all ages and places have pursued Utopias, dreaming impossible dreams of starting over in new communities fashioned more closely to their ideals. In Visions of Utopia, John Egerton traces the fascinating history of the experimental communities founded by such groups in Tennessee. He focuses in particular on three extraordinary colonies of the 19th century, each of them widely known in its time: Nashoba, and interracial settlement near Memphis in 1825; Rugby, an English cooperative community on the Cumberland Plateau in 1880; and Ruskin, a socialist community in Dickson County in 1894.
John Egerton is a native Southerner ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1977
Publisher
Univ Tennessee Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
104
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9780870492136
SKU
V9780870492136
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99-15
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