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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
A conflict of visions A conflict of visions Thomas Sowell Controversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts which endure for generations or for centuries show a remarkably consistent pattern. This book maintains that the enduring politica… OL1935795W
Imaginary cities Imaginary cities Darran Anderson 1 online resource (570 pages) OL20052786W
Commitment and community Commitment and community Rosabeth Moss Kanter Presents ideas and values underlying utopian communities and communal living, as well as extensive research on the forms of organization in successful and lasting communes of the nineteenth century. … OL2625215W
Herland Herland Charlotte Perkins Gilman One the eve of WWI, three American male explorers stumble onto an all-female society somewhere in the distant reaches of the earth. Unable to believe their eyes, they promptly set out to find some me… OL2771987W
Visions of utopia Visions of utopia Edward Rothstein "From the sex-free paradise of the Shakers to the worker's paradise of Marx, utopian ideas seem to have two things in common - they all are wonderfully plausible at the start and they all end up as d… OL3452049W
Experimental Americans Experimental Americans George L. Hicks "From colonial times to the present, the United States has been home to a steady stream of utopian experimental communities. In Experimental Americans, George L. Hicks takes us inside one of the long… OL8063053W