This reference provides more than 600 alphabetically arranged entries about utopian communities and their founders. The entries draw on a wide range of institutions: from abodes of love to conservation groups; from hippie communes and fantastic entertainments to caravans and residential settlements; from garden cities to children’s schools; from business schemes to spiritual encampments; from religious communities to unrealizable schemes. Entries were chosen for the… More >>
Utopias and Utopians: An Historical Dictionary
Tags: business schemes, garden cities, hippie communes, residential settlements, utopian communities
This book contains a shallow and inaccurate precis of a chapter I published in another book in 1995. The entry under my name, which comes up in a Google search, was never seen and certainly not authorised by me, nor was I told of its publication (for obvious reasons). While I have not read the whole book (and won’t be reading it), I can only assume that other entries were obtained in a similar fashion and are of a similar quality with regard to accuracy and depth of understanding.
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