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A socialist utopia in the new South : the Ruskin colonies in Tennessee and Georgia, 1894-1901 / W. Fitzhugh Brundage.
LIBRA HX655.S68 B78 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brundage, W. Fitzhugh (William Fitzhugh), 1959-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
- Collective settlements--Southern States--Case studies.
- Collective settlements.
- Communitarianism--Southern States--Case studies.
- Communitarianism.
- Utopias--Southern States--Case studies.
- Utopias.
- Ruskin, John.
- Ruskin, John, 1819-1900--Disciples.
- Disciples.
- United States--Social conditions--1865-1918.
- United States.
- Social conditions.
- Southern States.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 263 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1996]
- Summary:
- This first book length study of the Ruskin Colonies shows how several hundred utopian socialists gathered as a cooperative community in Tennessee and Georgia in the late nineteenth century.
- Contents:
- The utopian vision in the Gilded Age
- Julius A. Wayland and his utopian vision
- A community of "sensible, intelligent, earnest, and industrious people"
- A freer, fuller, richer life for women
- Living socialism in Tennessee
- The death and rebirth of Ruskin
- "A union of weaknesses" : Ruskin and the currents within American radicalism
- Epilogue : the meanings of Ruskin.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-255) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0252022440
- 0252065484
- OCLC:
- 33819322
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