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Utopianism - Selected Internet Resources

Utopia in History: From the Revolutionary Age Through the Nineteenth Century, a list of Web-based resources compiled by the New York Public Library.

SocioSite > Activism, Collective Action, Social Movements, Utopianism,  Social Science Information System at the University of Amsterdam.

Utopias in America, a contextual essay provided by the National Park Service on its web site for the Amana Colonies National Historic Landmark in eastern Iowa.

Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1815), hypertext available at Xroads at the American Studies Department at the University of Virginia.

Scott McLemee, "Back to the Future," Bookends, The New York Times on the Web, 5/24/2000. [Note on Bellamy's Looking Backward]

Marianne DeKoven, "Utopia Limited: Post-Sixties and Postmodern American Fiction,"  Modern Fiction Studies 41.1 (1995) 75-97.

Dennis R. Fox, "Psychology, Ideology, Utopia, and the Commons," American Psychologist, 40 (1985), 48-58.  

Analysis: In Need of Utopia?, transcript of BBC Radio Strands Program, originally broadcast December 19, 2002.

Naomi Klein, "Baghdad Year Zero: Pillaging Iraq in Pursuit of a Neocon Utopia," Harper's Magazine (September 2004).  

Articles selected from UML library databases

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Balasopoulos, Antonis.  "Unworldly Worldliness: America and the Trajectories of Utopian Expansionism." Utopian Studies, 2004, Vol. 15 Issue 2, p3-35.

Gould, Stephen J.  "Shoemaker and Morning Star."  Natural History.  Dec90, Vol. 99 Issue 12, p14.

Isaac, James; Altman, Irwin  "Interpersonal Processes in Nineteenth Century Utopian Communities: Shakers and Oneida Perfectionists." . Utopian Studies, 1998, Vol. 9 Issue 1, p26.

Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "Utopian Communities."  Sociological Inquiry, 1973, Vol. 43 Issue 3/4, p263-290.

Kopp, James J.  "Documenting Utopia in Oregon: The Challenges of Tracking the Quest for Perfection."   Oregon Historical Quarterly, 105.2 (Summer 2004): p308


Historical Articles

Memoir of the Mormons.  The Southern Literary Messenger; Devoted to Every Department of Literature, and the Fine Arts.  Nov 1848.Vol.14, Iss. 11; pg. 641

Communistic Societies in the United States.  The American Socialist. Devoted to the Enlargement and Perfection of Home.   Jul 26, 1877.Vol.2, Iss. 30; pg. 0_1.

Oneida Perfectionists: Woman's Place in the Community.  New York Times, August 10, 1878, pg. 2

The Oneida Community - Life and Death of its Founder.   New York Times, April 15, 1886, pg. 5

Life in the Amana Colony by Albert Shaw.  The Chautauquan; A Weekly Newsmagazine. Vol. 8, Iss. 5; pg. 300.

Romance of a Communistic Experiment of 70 Years Ago. New York Times, Jun 22, 1913. pg. SM9.