- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (16 Aug 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0419246703
- ISBN-13: 978-0419246701
- Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 19.2 x 1.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,145,406 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Hardy tells a good story in a readable prose and delivers a large chunk of utopian thought from an important root of experimentation."
-E.J. Green, CHOICE, May 2001
"Mentioned in a publication of "The Ecologist."
June 2001
-E.J. Green, CHOICE, May 2001
"Mentioned in a publication of "The Ecologist."
June 2001
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England in the early part of the twentieth century was rich in utopian ventures - diverse and intriguing in their scope and aims. Two world wars, an economic depression, and the emergence of fascist states in Europe were all a spur to idealists to seek new limits - to escape from the here and now, and to create sanctuaries for new and better lives.
Dennis Hardy explores this fascinating history of utopian ideals, the lives of those who pursued them, and the utopian communities they created.
Some communities were fired by a long tradition of land movements, others by thoughts of more humane ways of building towns. In turn there were experiments devoted to the arts; to the promotion of religious doctrine; and to a variety of political causes. And some were just 'places of the imagination'.
Utopian England is about just one episode in the perennial search for perfection, but what is revealed has lessons that extend well beyond a particular time and place. So long as there are failings in society, so long as rationality is not enough, there will continue to be a place for thinking the impossible, for going in search of utopia.
Dennis Hardy explores this fascinating history of utopian ideals, the lives of those who pursued them, and the utopian communities they created.
Some communities were fired by a long tradition of land movements, others by thoughts of more humane ways of building towns. In turn there were experiments devoted to the arts; to the promotion of religious doctrine; and to a variety of political causes. And some were just 'places of the imagination'.
Utopian England is about just one episode in the perennial search for perfection, but what is revealed has lessons that extend well beyond a particular time and place. So long as there are failings in society, so long as rationality is not enough, there will continue to be a place for thinking the impossible, for going in search of utopia.
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The idea of creating the perfect place on earth, perhaps in a corner of England, was certainly not new at the start of the twentieth century, and in the first part of this chapter the reader is offered a glimpse of this earlier experience. Read the first page
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