Main entry:

Hardy, Dennis.

Title & Author:

Utopian England : community experiments, 1900-1945 / Dennis Hardy.

Publication:

London : E & FN Spon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2000.

Description:

ix, 305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Series:

Studies in history, planning, and the environment

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-299) and index.
Quest for Perfection -- Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained -- A Very Unusual Period -- Shifting Boundaries -- The Land of Utopia -- England's Grief -- Opportunity and Expediency -- A Wartime Refuge -- Cities in the Sun -- The Urban Anti-Christ -- Garden City Salvation -- Building Utopia -- New Horizons -- City of Friends -- Modern Utopia -- The Art of Community -- Arts and Crafts in the Countryside -- Cells of the Good Life -- The Dartington Experiment -- Sacred Places -- Communities of God -- God without the State -- The Cotswold Bruderhof -- Salvation and Renewal -- The Politics of Nowhere -- Into the Margins -- Eminently Practical Visions -- Tales of the Chesterbelloc -- Kindred Spirits -- The Socialism of Small Groups -- The Place of Imagination -- The Land of Make Believe -- The Fiction of Escape -- The Devil's Decades -- Intellectual Coteries -- Twentieth-Century Conundrum -- The Experience of Utopia -- Comparative Perspectives -- The Next Future.

Summary:

This work examines the contrasting ideologies and fortunes of utopian community experiments in the early 20th century. The idea of creating a perfect society led to practical community experiments varying widely in ideology and form.

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ISBN:

0419246606
9780419246602
0419246703 (pbk.)
9780419246701 (pbk.)

Subject:

Collective settlements England History 20th century.
Utopias History.
Communautés Angleterre Histoire 20e siècle.
Utopies Histoire.
Collective settlements.
Utopias.
Kollektive Wohnform
Utopie
Communes.
Utopieën.
Collective settlements Great Britain History.
England.
Großbritannien

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Studies in history, planning, and the environment.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 220653
Call No.: HX696.H3 2000
Status: Available