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The utopians of this book were such mammoths that they cannot be However, theyĭo represent the most influential and perhaps most revealing experiments Nineteenth-century utopian experimentation specifically. As Jennings explains, these five groupsĭo not represent the whole of American utopianism, nor that of The Fourierist Phalanxes, Etienne Cabet and Icaria, and John Humphrey Lee and the Shakers, Robert Owen and New Harmony, Charles Fourier and Jennings centers his sweeping tale around the giants of the time: Ann United States in the middle of the nineteenth century" (3). More crowded with utopian longing and utopian experimentation than the Societies: "No moment in history or place on the globe has been Vital chapters in American history for those who study communal This historical narrative covers one of the most

In Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism, Chris Jenningsīrings us a fresh and incisive reading of nineteenth-century American Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism
