| Visions of Utopia: Nashoba, Rugby, Ruskin, and the New Communities in Tennessee's Past Contributor(s): Egerton, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0870492136 ISBN-13: 9780870492136 Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1977 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) - Political Science | Utopias |
| Dewey: 335.976 |
| LCCN: 77001509 |
| Series: Tennessee Three Star Books |
| Physical Information: 0.33" H x 6.04" W x 9.05" (0.41 lbs) 104 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Kentucky - Geographic Orientation - Tennessee |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Visionaries of all ages and places have pursued Utopias, dreaming impossible dreams of starting over in new communities fashioned more closely to their ideals. In Visions of Utopia, John Egerton traces the fascinating history of the experimental communities founded by such groups in Tennessee. He focuses in particular on three extraordinary colonies of the 19th century, each of them widely known in its time: Nashoba, and interracial settlement near Memphis in 1825; Rugby, an English cooperative community on the Cumberland Plateau in 1880; and Ruskin, a socialist community in Dickson County in 1894. John Egerton is a native Southerner A Georgian by birth, a Kentuckian in his childhood and youth, a Floridian during the early 1960 s, and a Tennessean since 1965. He is a grandson of one of the English colonists who started the Rugby settlement in 1880. As a journalist and author, he has written articles on a variety of subjects for more than twenty magazines, and has published two books about the South: A Mind to Stay Here (1970) and The Americanization of Dixie (1974). " |