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Utopian England: Community Experiments 1900-1945. - Review - book review
Contemporary Review, April, 2001
Utopian England: Community Experiments 1900-1945. Dennis Hardy. Routledge. [pound]65.00. 305 pages. ISBN 0-41924660-6. One usually thinks of the United States in the nineteenth century or England in the seventeenth as the home of utopian communities. Mr Hardy has disproved this way of thinking in an earlier study of utopian communities in nineteenth-century England and here looks at the same phenomenon in the first half of the last century.
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He also asks pertinent questions about utopianism in general: why did it persist and how did it differ from earlier periods. He examines the effect of the Great War, the 'garden suburb' movement, the influence of 'arts and crafts', religious communities (all too often ignored), the importance of socialism, the role of intellectuals and what he calls, the twentieth-century conundrum. He also demonstrates how all these various aspects over-lapped and affected one another. In his final chapter he examines the true nature of utopianism and gives us an essay not only into its very nature but its future: that it has one he is in no doubt.
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