The Quest for Utopia in Twentieth-Century America: Volume I: 1900-1960

The Quest for Utopia in Twentieth-Century America: Volume I: 1900-1960
ISBN-10
0815627750
ISBN-13
9780815627753
Category
Social Science
Pages
288
Language
English
Published
1998-05-01
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Author
Timothy Miller

Description

This book is the long-anticipated first volume of a two-volume work that will chronicle intentional communities in the twentieth century. Timothy Miller's chronological account is likely to be the standard work on the subject. Communities of the early twentieth century were often obscure and short-lived enterprises that left little trace of themselves. Historical accounts of them are few, and the ephemera such ventures produced have rarely been collected. Miller first looks at the older groups that were operating until I 900. He explores their impact of the early twentieth-century art colonies, and then turns to a decade-by-decade discussion of many dozens of new groups formed up to 1960. His comprehensive perspective—a synopsis of the first sixty years of this century—has never before been undertaken in the study of communal groups.

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