The Quest for Utopia in Twentieth-Century America: Volume I: 1900-1960 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780815627753)

This book is the long-anticipated first volume of a two-volume work that will chronicle intentional communities in the twentieth century. Timothy Miller's chronological account is likely to be the standard work on the subject.

Communities of the early twentieth century were often obscure and short-lived enterprises that left little trace of themselves. Historical accounts of them are few, and the ephemera such ventures produced have rarely been collected. Miller first looks at the older groups that were operating until I 900. He explores their impact of the early twentieth-century art colonies, and then turns to a decade-by-decade discussion of many dozens of new groups formed up to 1960.

His comprehensive perspective--a synopsis of the first sixty years of this century--has never before been undertaken in the study of communal groups.

Author: Timothy Miller
ISBN-10: 0815627750
ISBN-13: 9780815627753
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/1998
Pages: 284
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 9.14h x 6.24w x 1.03d