Utopian Thought in the Western World
- ISBN-10
- 0674931858
- ISBN-13
- 9780674931855
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 896
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1979
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Authors
- Frank Edward MANUEL, Fritzie Prigohzy Manuel
Description
Ranging over several centuries, this history of utopian thought describes the thinkers and the dreamers (and their visions of an ideal social order) who have left their mark on the thought of later generations
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