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Sabotaged Dreams of Utopia in Texas / James Pratt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pratt, James, 1927- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Collective settlements--Texas--History.
- Collective settlements.
- Utopian socialism--Texas--History.
- Utopian socialism.
- Utopias--Texas--History.
- Utopias.
- La R'eunion (Tex.)--History.
- La R'eunion (Tex.).
- Fourier, Charles, 1772-1837--Influence.
- Considerant, Victor, 1808-1893.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "Sabotaged is the account of French, Swiss, and Belgian intellectuals who followed Victor Considerant to Texas in 1855 in a quixotic attempt to fulfill their dreams of a new life in a utopia"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Charles Fourier's philosophy
- The doctor's community
- A better site for a Phalanstere
- First emissaries to the frontier
- Preparations and the view from Paris
- Preparations and the view from Guise
- Preparations and the view from Brussels
- Preparations and the view from Chapelle Gaugain
- Preparations and the view from New York
- Finding land
- Sailing to America
- Expectations
- Storm clouds
- From sails to steam to feet
- From Houston to the three forks
- First days building and the bloom of June
- Confronting the vision
- Trying out life
- Considerant and Texas politics
- Downward slide
- Demise
- Endings and new beginning
- Afterword: Reunion influences on Dallas.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781496220141
- 1496220145
- 9781496220127
- 1496220129
- OCLC:
- 1137040568
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