Heartland Utopias

ISBN-13: 9780875804019 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 229 str.

Robert P. Sutton

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Sutton provides a well-organized and readable overview of 19th-century utopian communities in the heartland defined as the old Northwest Territory, the Dakotas, and Missouri and a region that is second only to New England in the number of utopian communities during this period. Major emphasis is given to the Shakers, New Harmony. In addition to an analysis of general aspects of the utopias, Sutton focuses attention on some of the major utopian settlements, including but not limited to, the Shakers, New Harmony, the Fourierist phalanxes, the Icarians, and the Hutterites.