05/22/20 HS2O21 Utopia: The Quest for a Perfect World | University of Reading HS2O21 Utopia: The Quest for a Perfect World Utopia: The Quest for a Perfect World View Online 289 items Note: within each section, books and articles are listed roughly in order of importance. So a 'recommended' article is likely to be more useful than another 'recommended' article lower down in the same section. Overviews and surveys (20 items) Utopian Studies Journal | Recommended | 'Utopian Studies' is the leading journal in the field, featuring articles on many of the thinkers and social experiments considered in this module. An important resource. Utopianism: a very short introduction - Lyman Tower Sargent, 2010 Book | Recommended The utopia reader - Gregory Claeys, Lyman Tower Sargent, ProQuest (Firm), c1999 Book | Recommended Utopianism - Krishan Kumar, 1991 Book | Recommended Utopia: the search for the ideal society in the western world - Roland Schaer, Gregory Claeys, Lyman Tower Sargent, 2000 Book | Recommended The concept of Utopia - Ruth Levitas, c2011 Book | Recommended The utopia reader - 2017 Book | Recommended The Faber book of utopias - John Carey, 1999 Book | Recommended | An excellent and varied selection of utopian ideas and proposals. Searching for Utopia: the history of an idea - Gregory Claeys, 2011 Book | Recommended The story of Utopias - Lewis Mumford, 1959 Book | Recommended | An important utopian thinker (whose ideas influenced planning 1/22
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289 items
Note: within each section, books and articles are listed roughly in order of importance. Soa 'recommended' article is likely to be more useful than another 'recommended' articlelower down in the same section.
Overviews and surveys (20 items)
Utopian StudiesJournal | Recommended | 'Utopian Studies' is the leading journal in the field, featuring
articles on many of the thinkers and social experiments considered in this module. Animportant resource.
Utopianism: a very short introduction - Lyman Tower Sargent, 2010Book | Recommended
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Realistic utopias: the ideal imaginary societies of the Renaissance 1516-1630 - MiriamEliav-Feldon, 1982
Book | Further
Charles Fourier (3 items)
The Utopian vision of Charles Fourier: selected texts on work, love, and passionateattraction - Charles Fourier, 1972
Book | Recommended
Utopia becomes reality: Godin and the "familistère" of Guise - 1988Book | Further | Godin was an industrialist who established a utopian factory community
at Guise in northern France. He was influenced by Fourier's ideas.
Charles Fourier: the visionary and his world - Jonathan Beecher, 1986Book | Further | A good scholarly biography
Robert Owen (8 items)
Owen, Robert (1771–1858), socialist and philanthropist - Gregory Claeys, 2004Article | Recommended
New view of society - Robert Owen, 1927Book | Recommended | Owen's utopian blueprint for remaking England
Maclure of New Harmony: scientist, progressive educator, radical philanthropist - LeonardWarren, ebrary, Inc, c2009
Book | Further
The political ideas of the utopian socialists - Keith Taylor, 1982Book | Further
[Robert Owen correspondence] - Robert Owen, 2008Book | Further
The life of Robert Owen - Robert Owen, 1967Book | Further
Robert Owen - pioneer, visionary, New LanarkWebsite | Further
Robert Owen and the Owenites in Britain and America: the quest for the new moral world -J.F.C. Harrison, 1969
Book | Further
John Ruskin (9 items)
John Ruskin's Guild of St. George - James S. Dearden, 2010Book | Recommended
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Fors clavigera: letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain - John Ruskin, W.G.Collingwood, 1896
Book | Further | It was in this lengthy work that Ruskin's utopian ideas, that were to leadto the founding of the Guild of St George, were most clearly expressed
Unto this last - John Ruskin, ebrary, Inc, c2001Book | Further | Ruskin's fierce denunciation of industrial capitalism
John Ruskin: the early years, 1819-1859 - Tim Hilton, 1985Book | Further
John Ruskin: the later years - Tim Hilton, 2000Book | Further
John ruskin - Robert Hewison, 1976Book | Further
The Cambridge companion to John Ruskin - 2015Book | Further
John Ruskin & William Morris: the energies of order and love - David E. Gerard, WhittingtonPress, 1988
Book | Further
Ruskin's culture wars: Fors Clavigera and the crisis of Victorian liberalism - Judith Stoddart,1998
Book | Further
William Morris (4 items)
News from nowhere, or, An epoch of rest: being some chapters from a utopian romance -William Morris, Stephen Arata, 2003
Book | Recommended
Utopia Ltd: ideologies of social dreaming in England, 1870-1900 - Matthew Beaumont,2009
Book | Recommended
William Morris's utopia of strangers: Victorian medievalism and the ideal of hospitality -Marcus Waithe, 2006
Book | Further
William Morris in the twenty-first century - Phillippa Bennett, Rosie Miles, c2010Book | Further
Peter Kropotkin (7 items)
Rejecting the American model: Peter Kropotkin's radical communalism - Matthew Adams,Rejecting the American model: Peter Kropotkin's radical communalismAdams, Matthew S,2014
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Article | Recommended
The anarchist prince: a biographical study of Peter Kropotkin - George Woodcock, 1970Book | Further
Classical anarchism: the political thought of Godwin, Proudhon, Bakunin, and Kropotkin -George Crowder, 1991
Book | Further
Fields, factories, and workshops or industry combined with agriculture and brainwork withmanual work - Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin, 1907
Book | Further | Perhaps Kropotkin's most explicitly utopian work
The conquest of bread - Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin, 1968Book | Further
Mutual aid: a factor of evolution - Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin, 1902Book | Further | The work in which Kropotkin argued that cooperation was as important
a factor in evolution as competition
American anarchism - Steve J. Shone, 2013Book | Further | Includes a chapter on Kropotkin's vision of a 'just community'
Leo Tolstoy (6 items)
Britain and the International Tolstoyan Movement, 1890-1910 - Charlotte Alston, Britainand the International Tolstoyan Movement, 1890-1910Alston, Charlotte, 2013-01-01
Article | Recommended
Kingdom of god is within you - Leo Tolstoy, 1894Book | Recommended | The work that most guided many of Tolstoy's communitarian
followers
Leo Tolstoy - John Bayley, 1997Book | Further
Tolstoy's writings on civil disobedience and non-violence - Leo Tolstoy, 1968Book | Further
Leo Tolstoy, resident and stranger: a study in fiction and theology - Richard F. Gustafson,1986
Book | Further | Argues that religion was central to all Tolstoy's works and life
Tolstoy - A.N. Wilson, 1989Book | Further
Other thinkers and writers (20 items)
Looking backward, 2000-1887 - Edward Bellamy, Matthew Beaumont, ebrary, Inc, 2007Book | Recommended | Bellamy's 'Looking Backward' was one of the most influential
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The utopia of film: cinema and its futures in Godard, Kluge, and Tahimik - ChristopherPavsek, 2013
Book | Further
H.G. Wells on film: the utopian nightmare - Don G. Smith, 2010Book | Further
Demand the impossible: science fiction and the utopian imagination - Tom Moylan, 1986Book | Further
Utopian communities in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries(86 items)
General works on utopian communities (5 items)
Alternative communities in nineteenth century England - Dennis Hardy, 1979Book | Recommended
Heavens below: utopian experiments in England 1560-1960 - W.H.G. Armytage, 1961Book | Recommended
Utopia Britannica: 1325 to 1945, Vol. 1: British utopian experiments - Chris Coates, 2001Book | Recommended
The literary utopias of cultural communities, 1790-1910 - Marguérite Corporaal, Evert Janvan Leeuwen, ebrary, Inc, 2010
Book | Further
Pirate utopias: Moorish corsairs & European Renegadoes - Peter Lamborn Wilson, 2003Book | Further
The Diggers (8 items)
Utopian communism and political thought in early modern England - Timothy Kenyon,1989
Book | Recommended
Brave community: the Digger movement in the English Revolution - John Gurney, 2007Book | Recommended
Winstanley - Kevin Brownlow, Andrew Mollo, British Film Institute, 2012Audio-visual document | Recommended | A compelling, historically-informed film, vividly
expressing Winstanley's utopian hopes
Utopian communism and political thought in early modern England - Timothy Kenyon,1989
Book | Further
Winstanley the Digger: a literary analysis of radical ideas in the English Revolution - T.
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Wilson Hayes, 1979Book | Further
Radicalism and reverence: the political thought of Gerrard Winstanley - George M.Shulman, 1989
Book | Further
Winstanley and the Diggers, 1649-1999 - Andrew Bradstock, c2000Book | Further
Gerrard Winstanley: te Digger's life and legacy - John Gurney, ebrary, Inc, 2013Book | Further
The Moravians (3 items)
The Moravian Settlement at Fulneck 1742-1790 - Geoffrey Stead, 1999Book | Recommended
The Moravian Church in England, 1728-1760 - Colin Podmore, 1998Book | Further
Moravians - Aaron Spencer Fogleman, 2016-Book | Further
Owenism (7 items)
Ralahine: An Irish Owenite Community (1831–1833) - Vincent Geoghegan, 1991-12Article | Essential
The Owenite Community at Ralahine, County Clare, 1831-33: A Reassessment - CormacGráda, The Owenite Community at Ralahine, County Clare, 1831-33: AReassessmentGráda, Cormac Ó, 1974-01-01
Article | Recommended
The people's farm: English radical agrarianism 1775-1840 - Malcolm Chase, 1988Book | Recommended | A key work on utopian (especially Owenite) communities in
early c.19th England
ET Craig: proto-socialist, phrenologist and public health engineer - A. Evans, 2008-06-01Article | Recommended | Craig was a leading figure in the Owenite community of
Ralahine
Cooperative communities: plans and descriptions : eleven pamphlets 1825-1847 - 1972Book | Further
Owenism and the working class: six pamphlets and four broadsides, 1821-1834 - 1972Book | Further
Buildings of the labour movement - Nicholas Mansfield, English Heritage, 2013Book | Further
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Fourierism in Europe and America (4 items)
The utopian alternative: Fourierism in nineteenth-century America - Carl J. Guarneri, 1991Book | Recommended
Rebecca Codman Butterfield's Reminiscences of Brook Farm - Joel Myerson, 1992-12Article | Recommended | Fascinating, detailed memoir of life at Brook Farm
Two Unpublished Reminiscences of Brook Farm - Joel Myerson, Brook Farm, 1975-06Article | Recommended | Interesting recollections of Brook Farm, the first emphasizing
the number of leading writers who were connected with it, the second focusing on theinnovative pedagogical principles of the Brook Farm school.
The quest for utopia in twentieth century America - Timothy Miller, 1998-Book | Further
Other American utopian communities (12 items)
Seeds of the kingdom: utopian communities in the Americas - Anna Lisa Peterson, ebrary,Inc, 2005
Book | Further
Heavens on earth: utopian communities in America, 1680-1880 - Mark Holloway, 1966Book | Further
America's communal utopias - Donald E. Pitzer, c1997Book | Further
America's communal utopias - Donald E. Pitzer, ebrary, Inc, c1997Book | Further | Electronic version
American utopias - Charles Nordhoff, Robert S. Fogarty, c1993Book | Further
Dictionary of American communal and utopian history - Robert S. Fogarty, 1980Book | Further
Commitment and community: communes and utopias in sociological perspective -Rosabeth Moss Kanter, 1972
Book | Further
The communitarian moment: the radical challenge of the Northampton Association -Christopher Clark, 1995
Book | Further
American Utopianism - Robert S. Fogarty, 1972Book | Further
Landscapes of hope: anti-colonial utopianism in America - Dohra Ahmad, 2009
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The Whiteway Anarchists in the Twentieth Century: A Transnational Community in theCotswolds - Antony Taylor, 2016-01
Article | Recommended
J. C. Kenworthy and the Tolstoyan Communities in England - W. H. G. Armytage, 1957Article | Recommended
LIVING BY DESIGN: C. R. ASHBEE'S GUILD OF HANDICRAFT AND TWO ENGLISH TOLSTOYANCOMMUNITIES, 1897-1907 - Diana Maltz, 2011
Article | Recommended
Whiteway Colony: the social history of a Tolstoyan community - Joy Thacker, 1993Book | Recommended | The most enduring Tolstoyan community in the UK
Tolstoy and the Tolstoyans - Gribble, Francis, Sep 1908Article | Further
Tolstoy and his disciples: the history of a radical international movement - Charlotte Alston, 2014
Book | Further
Tolstoy's Guiding Light - Alston, Charlotte, Oct 2010Article | Recommended
‘Fellowship is Heaven’ - Jocelyn Robson, 2016Chapter | Further
Britain and the International Tolstoyan Movement, 1890-1910 - Charlotte Alston, Britainand the International Tolstoyan Movement, 1890-1910Alston, Charlotte, 2013-01-01
Article | Further
The Bruderhof movement (8 items)
Against the wind: Eberhard Arnold and the bruderhof. - CM Craft, Against the wind:Eberhard Arnold and the bruderhof.Craft, CM, 1998
Article | Further
The Witness of the Brothers: a history of the Bruderhof - Yaacov Oved, 2017Book | Further
No heavenly delusion?: a comparative study of three communal movements - MikeTyldesley, ebrary, Inc, 2003
Book | Further
The other side of joy: religious melancholy among the Bruderhof - Julius H. Rubin, ebrary,Inc, c2000
Book | Further
God's blueprints: a sociological study of three utopian sects - John McKelvie Whitworth,1975
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Peasants and communists: politics and ideology in the Yugoslav countryside, 1941-1953 -Melissa K. Bokovoy, American Council of Learned Societies, c1998
Book | Further
Self-management: economic theory and Yugoslav practice - Saul Estrin, 1983Book | Further
The Yugoslav economy under self-management - Ljubo Sirc, 1979Book | Further
The contested country: Yugoslav unity and communist revolution, 1919-1953 - AleksaDjilas, 1991
Book | Further
The legitimation of a revolution: the Yugoslav case - Bogdan Denitch, 1976Book
The transformation of Communist ideology: the Yugoslav case, 1945-1953 - A. RossJohnson, 1972
Book | Further
The Yugoslav tragedy: lessons for socialists - Michael Barratt Brown, 1996Book | Further
Mapping the Paths of the Yugoslav Model: Labour Strength and Weakness in Slovenia,Croatia and Serbia - Marko Grdešić, 2008-06
Article | Further
Remembering utopia: the culture of everyday life in socialist Yugoslavia - Breda Luthar,Maruša Pušnik, 2010
Book | Further
Novi Beograd: The Modernist Architecture of a Yugoslav UtopiaWebpage | Further
Balkan tragedy: chaos and dissolution after the Cold War - Susan L. Woodward, c1995Book | Further | An influential and penetrating study of the dissolution of Yugoslavia,
attributing significant blame to foreign intervention.
Cuba (16 items)
CLIO History Journal - An Assessment of the Cuban RevolutionWebpage | Recommended | A very brief overview. Useful for initial orientation but
rather simplistic.
Workers' Parliaments in Cuba - Peter Roman, 1995Article | Recommended | A fascinating eye-witness account of workers' parliaments in
action
The Cuban Revolution in the 21st century - George Lambie, ebrary, Inc, 2010Book | Recommended | Chapter 3 is particularly interesting in relation to the political
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institutions and social achievements of the Cuban Revolution.
Cuba in revolution: a history since the fifties - Antoni Kapcia, 2008Book | Recommended | Chapter 2 is especially relevant in relation to the domestic
achievements of the Cuban Revolution
Back from the future: Cuba under Castro - Susan Eckstein, ProQuest (Firm), 2003Book | Recommended | A sympathetic but critical study that argues many of the
determinants of the evolution of Communist Cuba lay outside the control of the Cubanleadership. Chapter 8 provides a useful summary and overview.
Cuba: a new history - Richard Gott, 2005Book | Recommended
Participation and Decision Making in Local Spaces in Cuba: Notes for a Debate on theChallenges Facing Popular Power after 30 Years - Elena Nápoles Rodríguez and MarianaOrtega Breña, 2009
Article | Recommended
The Cuban revolution as socialist human development - Henry Veltmeyer, Mark Rushton,ebrary, Inc, c2012
Book | Further
Cuba today and tomorrow: reinventing socialism - Max Azicri, 2000Book | Further
Cuba in revolution - Mark Sanders, Richard Gott, Peter Kornbluh, 2013Book | Further
The Cuba reader: history, culture, politics - Aviva Chomsky, Barry Carr, Pamela MaríaSmorkaloff, 2003
Book | Further
The Cuban Revolution: past, present and future perspectives - Geraldine Lievesley, 2004Book | Further
A nation for all: race, inequality, and politics in twentieth-century Cuba - Alejandro de laFuente, ebrary, Inc, c2001
Book | Further
Cuba since the Revolution of 1959: a critical assessment - Samuel Farber, 2011Book | Further
The origins of the Cuban Revolution reconsidered - Samuel Farber, ebrary, Inc, c2006Book | Further
The Cuban Revolution: past, present and future perspectives - Geraldine Lievesley, 2004Book | Further
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The Nordic Model: Existence, Emergence and Sustainability - Razi Iqbal, Padma Todi, 2015Article | Essential | A good introduction that begins by setting out some of the
exceptional achievements of Scandinavian social democracy.
Scandinavian politics today - David Arter, ebrary, Inc, 2008Book | Recommended | Please read Part 4
The Nordic model: Scandinavia since 1945 - Mary Hilson, ProQuest (Firm), 2008Book | Recommended | Please read Chapter 3
The nordic model of social democracy - Nik Brandal, Øivind Bratberg, Dag Einar Thorsen,2013
Book | Recommended | Please read Part 1 Chapter 4
Between growth and security: Swedish social democracy from a strong society to a thirdway - Jenny Andersson, Mireille L. Key, ebrary, Inc, 2006
Book | Recommended
In search of social democracy: responses to crisis and modernisation - 2009Book | Recommended | Article by Dimitris Tsarouhas
Social democracy in Sweden: the threat from a globalized world - Dimitris Tsarouhas,ebrary, Inc, 2008
Book | Recommended
The Nordic Model: a promise of prosperity for all? - Cheick Wague, 2017Book | Recommended
Reinterpreting social democracy: a history of stability in the British Labour Party andSwedish Social Democratic Party - Jonas Hinnfors, 2006
Book | Further
Neoliberal globalization and the crisis of Swedish social democracy - J. Magnus Ryner,European University Institute. Department of Political and Social Sciences, 1998
Book | Further
The limits of social democracy: investment politics in Sweden - Jonas Pontusson, 1992Book | Further
The political theory of Swedish social democracy: through the welfare state to socialism -Tim Tilton, 1990
Book | Further
Sweden: social democracy in practice - Henry Milner, 1989Book | Further
Nordic Ways - András Simonyi, Debra Cagan, 2017Book | Further
Sustainable modernity: the Nordic model and beyond - Nina Witoszek, Atle Midttun, 2018Book | Further