Expectations for the millennium : American socialist visions of the future / edited by Peter H. Buckingham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Buckingham, Peter H., 1948-

Series:

Contributions in American history 0084-9219 ; no. 192.

Contributions in American history, 0084-9219 ; no. 192

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Socialism--United States--History.

Socialism.

United States.

History.

Christian socialism--United States--History.

Christian socialism.

Physical Description:

xiii, 194 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002.

Contents:

Introduction: The Promise of a Better Future / Robert S. Fogarty xi

1. An Optimistic Millennialism: Edward Bellamy's Vision of Socialism as "Applied Christianity" / Jacob H. Dorn 1

2. Socialist Expectations and the "New Woman" in the Utopian Fiction of Edward Bellamy, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Jack London / Francis R. Shor 19

3. The Kingdom of God as Cooperative Commonwealth: Socialist Christians, the Millennial Ideal, and the State / Jacob H. Dorn 35

4. Social Democratic Millennium: Visions of Gender / Sally M. Miller 55

5. Visions from the "Beautiful Trinity": The Dawning of the Cooperative Commonwealth in the Popular Socialist Press / Peter H. Buckingham 71

6. A Utopian Frontier in the New South / W. Fitzhugh Brundage 93

7. "Our Political Faith Is Socialism, Our Religious Faith Is the Latter-day Saints": Socialist Mormons and their Millennial Vision in the Early Twentieth Century / John R. Sillito, John S. McCormick 111

8. William English Walling's Enduring Vision of Racial Reconciliation / Jack Stuart 131

9. The IWW Vision: Building a New Society Within the Shell of the Old / Dan Georgakas 149.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [179]-184) and index.

ISBN:

0313316708

OCLC:

45963181