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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

The utopia reader - Gregory Claeys, Lyman Tower Sargent, ProQuest (Firm), c1999Book | Recommended

Utopianism - Krishan Kumar, 1991Book | Recommended

Utopia: the search for the ideal society in the western world - Roland Schaer, GregoryClaeys, Lyman Tower Sargent, 2000

Book | Recommended

The concept of Utopia - Ruth Levitas, c2011Book | Recommended

The utopia reader - 2017Book | Recommended

The Faber book of utopias - John Carey, 1999Book | Recommended | An excellent and varied selection of utopian ideas and

proposals.

Searching for Utopia: the history of an idea - Gregory Claeys, 2011Book | Recommended

The story of Utopias - Lewis Mumford, 1959Book | Recommended | An important utopian thinker (whose ideas influenced planning

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and new towns), Mumford's work is always stimulating, even though now in some waysdated.

The shape of utopia: studies in a literary genre - Robert C. Elliott, Phillip E. Wegner, 2013Book | Recommended

Utopia method vision: the use value of social dreaming - Tom Moylan, Raffaella Baccolini,c2007

Book | Further

Nowhere somewhere: writing, space and the construction of utopia - José Eduardo Reis,Bastos da Silva, ebrary, Inc, c2006

Book | Further

The history of Utopian thought - Joyce Oramel Hertzler, 2017Book | Further

Imaginary communities: utopia, the nation, and the spatial histories of modernity - PhillipE. Wegner, c2002

Book | Further

Transformations of Utopia: changing views of the perfect society - George Edgar Slusser,c1999

Book | Further

Voyages to Utopia: from monastery to commune : the search for the perfect society inmodern times - William M. McCord, 1989

Book | Further

Exploring the utopian impulse: essays on utopian thought and practice - 2015Book | Further

Utopias and Utopians: an historical dictionary - R. C. S. Trahair, ebrary, Inc, 1999Book | Further

Paradise dreamed: how utopian thinkers have changed the modern world - PamelaNeville-Sington, David Sington, 1993

Book | Further

Classical, Biblical and medieval utopias (9 items)

The republic: the influential classic - Benjamin Jowett, Tom Butler-Bowdon, Plato, ebrary,Inc, 2012

Book | Further | Plato's highly influential prescriptive utopia

Plato's Utopia recast: his later ethics and politics - Christopher Bobonich, 2002Book | Further

Routledge philosophy guidebook to Plato and the Republic - Nickolas Pappas, 2003

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Book | Further

Cities of the gods: communist utopias in Greek thought - Doyne Dawson, 1992Book | Further

Utopias of the classical world - John Ferguson, 1975Book | Further

Violence, utopia, and the kingdom of God: fantasy and ideology in the Bible - Tina Pippin,George Aichele, ebrary, Inc, 2002

Book | Further

Revelation 21-22 in light of Jewish and Greco-Roman utopianism - Eric J. Gilchrest, ebrary,Inc, c2013

Book | Further

Nowhere in the Middle Ages - Karma Lochrie, 2016Book | Further

Pragmatic Utopias: ideals and communities, 1200-1630 - Rosemary Horrox, Sarah ReesJones, 2010

Book | Further

Non-western utopias (5 items)

Introduction:Utopias from other cultural traditions - Jacqueline Dutton, Lyman TowerSargent, 2013

Article | Recommended

'Non-western' utopian traditions - Jacqueline Dutton, 2010Chapter | Recommended | This is a book chapter in Gregory Claeys (ed), The Cambridge

Companion to Utopian Literature (see below)

The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature - Gregory Claeys, 2010Book | Recommended

Peace under Heaven: The (Re)Making of an Ideal World Order in Chinese Utopianism(1902–1911) - Li, Guangyi, 2013

Thesis | Further

Bao-yu and the Second Self: - Ferrara, 2015Article | Further

Utopian literature (86 items)

General works on utopian literature (6 items)

Modern British utopias, 1700-1850 - Gregory Claeys, 1997Book | Recommended

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The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature - Gregory Claeys, 2010Book | Recommended

Dictionary of literary utopias - Vita Fortunati, Raymond Trousson, 2000Book | Further

Utopian imagination and eighteenth-century fiction - Christine Rees, 1996Book | Further

Utopias and the millennium - Krishan Kumar, Stephen Bann, 1993Book | Further

Utopian thought in the Western world - Frank Edward Manuel, Fritzie P. Manuel, 1979Book | Further

Thomas More (11 items)

Utopia - Thomas More, China Miéville, Ursula K. Le Guin, 2016Book | Recommended | This edition has critical essays by utopian scholars such as the

influential fantasy writer (and anarchist sympathizer) Ursula Le Guin.

Utopia - Thomas More, ebrary, Inc, 2001Book | Recommended

More's Utopia - Dominic Baker-Smith, 1991Book | Further

New worlds reflected: travel and utopia in the early modern period - Chloë Ruth McNeillHouston, 2010

Book | Further

Utopia, carnival and commonwealth in Renaissance England - Christopher Kendrick, 2004Book | Further

Utopia and the ideal society: a study of English utopian writing, 1516-1700 - J.C. Davis,1981

Book | Further

Between utopia and dystopia: Erasmus, Thomas More, and the humanist Republic ofLetters - Hanan Yoran, ProQuest (Firm), 2010

Book | Further

The new republic: a commentary on Book 1 of More's Utopia showing its relation to Plato'sRepublic - Colin Starnes, 1989

Book | Further

More's Utopia: ideal and illusion - Robbin S. Johnson, 1969Book | Further

Founding fictions: Utopias in early modern England - Amy Boesky, c1996Book | Further

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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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utopian texts since Thomas More

A modern utopia - H.G. Wells, Knill (Firm), 1905Book | Further

A modern Utopia - H.G. Wells, Krishan Kumar, 1994Book | Further

A modern utopia - H.G. Wells, Gregory Claeys, Patrick Parrinder, Francis Wheen, 2005Book | Further

Maps of utopia: H.G. Wells, modernity, and the end of culture - Simon J. James, 2012Book | Further

Tenses of imagination: Raymond Williams on science fiction, utopia and dystopia -Raymond Williams, Andrew Milner, ebrary, Inc, c2010

Book | Further

Living Walden Two: B.F. Skinner's behaviorist utopia and experimental communities - HilkeKuhlmann, ebrary, Inc, c2005

Book | Further

Utopia and anti-Utopia in modern times - Krishan Kumar, 1987Book | Recommended

The quest for utopia: an anthology of imaginary societies - Glenn Negley, J. Max Patrick,c1952

Book | Further

Modern utopian fictions from H.G. Wells to Iris Murdoch - Peter Edgerly Firchow, 2008Book | Further

Literature and Utopian politics in seventeenth-century England - Robert Appelbaum, 2002Book | Further

Literature and Utopian politics in seventeenth-century England - Robert Appelbaum,ebrary, Inc, 2002

Book | Further

The new utopian politics of Ursula K. Le Guin's The dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin, 2005Book | Further

Socialism: utopian or scientific - Friedrich Engels, ebrary, Inc, c2001Book

The new Atlantis - Francis Bacon, ebrary, Inc, 2001Book | Further | A well-known early seventeenth-century scientific utopia

The city of the sun: a poetical dialogue - Tommaso Campanella, NetLibrary, Inc, 199-Book | Further

Utopias of the British enlightenment - Gregory Claeys, 1994

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Book | Further

Dreams and visions: a study of American utopias, 1865-1917 - Charles J. Rooney, 1985Book | Further

Utopian communism in France: Cabet and the Icarians, 1839-1851 - Christopher H.Johnson, 1974

Book | Further

Utopian communism in France: Cabet and the Icarians, 1839-1851 - Christopher H.Johnson, American Council of Learned Societies, 1974

Book | Further | Electronic version of above book

Feminist utopias (9 items)

Feminist utopias - Frances Bartkowski, 1989Book | Further

Women's utopias of the eighteenth century - Alessa Johns, 2003Book | Further

Women's utopian and dystopian fiction - 2013Book | Further

Women's utopias in British and American fiction - Nan Bowman Albinski, 1988Book | Further

Women in search of utopia: mavericks and mythmakers - Ruby Rohrlich, Elaine HoffmanBaruch, 1984

Book | Further

Herland - Charlotte Perkins Gilman, NetLibrary, Inc, University of Virginia. Library.Electronic Text Center, 199-

Book | Further

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: her progress toward Utopia with selected writings - Carol FarleyKessler, 1995

Book | Further | Gilman was the author of an intriguing fictional utopia without men:'Herland'

Charlotte Perkins Gilman and her contemporaries: literary and intellectual contexts -Cynthia J. Davis, Denise D. Knight, ebrary, Inc, c2004

Book | Further

A very different story: studies on the fiction of Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Val Gough, JillRudd, 1998

Book | Further

Utopian films and TV series (3 items)

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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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Book | Further

The Bethel Colony: Intersections of Culture and Built Form in a Bible Communist Utopia -Janet R. White, 2017/04/11

Article | Further

The Family in Utopia: Celibacy, Communal Child Rearing, and Continuity in a ReligiousCommune - Metin M. Coşgel, 2000-10

Article | Further

Ruskin's Guild of St George (3 items)

The lost companions and John Ruskin's Guild of St George: a revisionary history - MarkFrost, 2014

Book | Recommended

‘Practical power and faith’: 1 Ruskin and the Companions of the Guild of St George - StuartEagles, 2011

Chapter | Recommended

From Fantasy to Reality: - Francelia Butler, 1972Article | Further | This concerns the inspiration for the Guild of St George, and its

influence in the USA

The 'Back to the Land' movement (6 items)

Back to the land: the pastoral impulse in England, from 1880 to 1914 - Jan Marsh, 1982Book | Recommended

Alternative communities in nineteenth century England - Dennis Hardy, 1979Book | Recommended

Utopia ltd: ideologies of social dreaming in England, 1870-1900 - Matthew Beaumont,ebrary, Inc, 2005

Book | Recommended

Utopian England: community experiments, 1900-1945 - Dennis Hardy, 2000Book | Recommended

Utopian craftsmen: the arts and crafts movement from the Cotswolds to Chicago - LionelLambourne, 1980

Book | Further

Early green politics: back to nature, back to the land, and socialism in Britain, 1880-1900 -Peter Gould, 1988

Book | Further

Tolstoyan communities (9 items)

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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

Book

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Women, family, and utopia: communal experiments of the Shakers, the OneidaCommunity, and the Mormons - Lawrence Foster, 1991

Book | Further

The joyful community: an account of the Bruderhof, a communal movement now in itsthird generation - Benjamin David Zablocki, 1980

Book | Further

From utopia to total institution in a single generation: the Kibbutz and the Bruderhof -Sheldon Goldenberg and Gerda R. Wekerle, 1972

Article | Further

Anarchist communities in the UK (5 items)

Roses and revolutionists: the story of the Clousden Hill Free Communist and Co-operativeColony 1894-1909 - Nigel Todd, 2015

Book | Further

The Rise of Ethical Anarchism in Britain,1885-1900 - Mark Bevir, 1996-06Article | Recommended

Modernism and British socialism - Thomas P. Linehan, 2012Book | Further

Clousden Hill Free Communist and Co-operative Colony | Mapping Radical TynesideWebpage | Further

Clousden Hill - Fellowship for Intentional CommunityWebpage | Further

Spanish anarchist communes (9 items)

Anarchism, the republic and civil war in Spain: 1931-1939 - Julián Casanova, 2014Book | Further

The Anarchist collectives: workers' self-management in the Spanish Revolution, 1936-1939- Sam Dolgoff, 1990

Book | Further

Class, culture, and conflict in Barcelona, 1898-1937 - Chris Ealham, ProQuest (Firm), 2005Book | Further

Anarchist decentralism in rural Spain, 1936-1939: The integration of community andenvironment - Myrna Margulies Breitbart, 1978-12

Article | Further

Anarchism and Workers' Self-Management in Revolutionary Spain - Frank Mintz, ChrisEalham, Paul Sharkey, 2013

Book | Further

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The Spanish revolution: the Left and the struggle for power during the Civil War - BurnettBolloten, c1979

Book | Further

Libertarian Collectivisations in Spain (1936-1939): A case of worker self-management inthe modern history - Anastasio Ovejero Bernal, 2017-07-04

Article | Further

Terror and Violence: The Dark Face of Spanish Anarchism - Julián Casanova, 2005Article | Further

Models of revolution: Rural women and anarchist collectivisation in civil war Spain - MarthaA. Ackelsberg, 1993-04

Article | Further

The Israeli Kibbutz movement (7 items)

Where community happens: the kibbutz and the philosophy of communalism - Henry Near,2011

Book | Further

Women in the kibbutz - Lionel Tiger, Joseph Shepher, 1975Book | Further

Judaism and collective life: self and community in the religious kibbutz - Aryei Fishman,ProQuest (Firm), 2002

Book | Further

Family Life in the Kibbutz of Israel: Utopia Gained or Paradise Lost? - Benjamin Schlesinger,1970-01-01

Article

Growing up in the Kibbutz: [comparison of the personality of children brought up in theKibbutz and of family-reared children] - A.I. Rabin, 1965

Book | Further

The renewal of the kibbutz: from reform to transformation - Raymond Russell, ShelomohGets, Robert Hanneman, ProQuest (Firm), c2013

Book

Curlie - Regional: Middle East: Israel: KibbutzimWebpage | Further

Model villages, Garden Cities and New Towns (11 items)

To-morrow: a peaceful path to real reform - Ebenezer Howard, Peter Geoffrey Hall, DennisHardy, Colin Ward, 2003

Book | Recommended | The utopian work that inspired the Garden City movement

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The garden city utopia: a critical biography of Ebenezer Howard - Robert Beevers, 1988Book | Recommended

From garden cities to new towns: campaigning for town and country planning, 1899-1946 -Dennis Hardy, ebrary, Inc, 1991

Book | Recommended

From new towns to green politics: campaigning for town and country planning, 1946-1990- Dennis Hardy, 1991

Book | Recommended

Utopia on trial: vision and reality in planned housing - Alice Coleman, King's CollegeLondon. Design Disadvantagement Team, 1985

Book | Further

The art of building a garden city: designing new communities for the 21st century - KateHenderson, Katy Lock, Hugh Ellis, 2017

Book | Further

The ideal city - Helen Elizabeth Meller, Canon Barnett, Patrick Geddes, 1979Book | Further

Villages of vision - Gillian Darley, 1975Book | Further | The classic account of British model villages

Democratic dilemmas, planning and Ebenezer Howard's garden city - ALAN MARCH *,2004-10

Article | Further

Growth with self-management: Yugoslav industrialization, 1952-1975 - John H. Moore,1980

Book | Further

Welwyn Garden City - Angela Eserin, 1995Book | Further

Communes of the Counterculture (8 items)

Communes britannica: history of communal living in britain 1939-2000 - Chris Coates,2013

Book | Recommended

A Colony of Seekers: Findhorn in the 1990s - Steven Sutcliffe, 2000-05Article | Recommended

Living Utopia - John Davis, Anette Warring, 2011-01Article | Recommended

Communes in Britain - Andrew Rigby, 1974Book | Recommended

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The communal idea in the 21st century - Menaḥem Ṭopel, Eliezer Ben Rafael, Iaácov Oved,ebrary, Inc, 2012

Book | Recommended

Hippie modernism: the struggle for utopia - Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), 2015Book | Recommended

Morning star: surrealism, marxism, anarchism, situationism, utopia - Michael Löwy, ebrary,Inc, 2009

Book | Further

Communes and cults - Kathlyn Gay, c1997Book | Further

Utopian nations (51 items)

Utopian nations: general works (1 items)

Revolutionary dreams: utopian vision and experimental life in the Russian Revolution -Richard Stites, 1989

Book

Yugoslavia (18 items)

Workers' Councils in Yugoslavia: Successes and Failures - Goran Marković, 2011-11Article | Recommended

Democracy without empowerment: The grand vision and demise of Yugoslavself-management - Lynn, Monty LMulej, MatjazJurse, Karin, 2002

Article | Recommended

Approaching the socialist factory and its workforce: considerations from fieldwork in(former) Yugoslavia - Rory Archer, Goran Musić, 2017-01

Article | Recommended

Bastards of utopia: living radical politics after socialism - Maple Razsa, 2015Book | Further

The beloved land - Vladimir Dedijer, 1961Book | Further | A first-hand account of the struggle of the Partisans against Nazi

occupation and the ideals and early days of Yugoslav communism, by one of its principalfigures

Bought & sold: living and losing the good life in socialist Yugoslavia - Patrick HyderPatterson, ebrary, Inc, 2012

Book | Further

Comparative communism: the Soviet, Chinese, and Yugoslav models - Gary K. Bertsch,Thomas W. Ganschow, 1976

Book | Further

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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

Sweden and the 'Nordic model' (16 items)

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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

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Changing social equality: the Nordic welfare model in the 21st century - 2012Book | Further

The future of utopia (12 items)

Envisioning real utopias - Erik Olin Wright, 2010Book | Recommended | One of the most systematic and influential recent attempts to

develop a future for utopia

Utopia for realists: how we can build the ideal world - Rutger Bregman, Elizabeth Manton,2017

Book | Recommended

Spaces of hope - David Harvey, c2000Book | Recommended

The end of Utopia: politics and culture in an age of apathy - Russell Jacoby, 1999Book | Recommended

The feminist utopia project: fifty-seven visions of a wildly better future - 2015Book | Further

Living without domination: the possibility of an anarchist utopia - Samuel Clark, ProQuest(Firm), c2007

Book | Further

Dreamworld and catastrophe: the passing of mass utopia in East and West - SusanBuck-Morss, 2000

Book | Further

Viable utopian ideas: shaping a better world - 2015Book | Further

World government: utopian dream or current reality? - Raymond W. Converse, ebrary, Inc,c2010

Book | Further

Ecological utopias: envisioning the sustainable society - Marius de Geus, 1999Book | Further

Socialist register: 2000: Necessary and unnecessary utopias - Leo Panitch, Colin Leys,1999

Book | Further

Contemporary feminist utopianism - Lucy Sargisson, ebrary, Inc, 1996Book | Further

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