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A Socialist Utopia in the New South: The Ruskin Colonies in Tennessee and Georgia, 1894-1901
Contributor(s): Brundage, W. Fitzhugh (Author)

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ISBN: 0252065484     ISBN-13: 9780252065484
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 1996
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Annotation: 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.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism
- History | United States - 19th Century
Dewey: 335.076
LCCN: 95041805
Physical Information: 0.86" H x 5.98" W x 8.95" L (1.04 lbs) 288 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Southeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation - Georgia
- Geographic Orientation - Tennessee
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
 
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Publisher Description:
"A definitive account
of the Ruskin colonies and of their place in the larger social radical
strivings of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. . . .
Well written and solidly researched, it gives us an understanding of an
important quest for heaven on earth." -- Edward K. Spann, author
of Brotherly Tomorrows: Movements for a Cooperative Society in America,
1820-1920
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. The communitarians' noble but fatally flawed act of social endeavor
revealed the courage and desperation they felt as they searched for alternatives
to the chaotic and competitive individualism of the age of robber barons
and for a viable model for a just and humane society at a time of profound
uncertainty about public life in the United States.
 
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