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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ of Massachusetts Pr
Publication date
December 1, 2003
Pages
288
Binding
Paperback
Edition
1st pbk
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781558494169
ISBN-10
1558494162
Dimensions
0.75 by 6 by 9 in.
Weight
1 lbs.
Original list price
$24.95
Other format details
university press
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: It used to be virtually unquestioned that history belonged to the successful. Individuals and movements deemed "failures" were usually disregarded or entirely forgotten.
Communitarians of the 1840s set forth a variety of radical critiques of contemporary American society, based both on their own experiences and on their visions of a better world. Their attempts to realize these visions met with strong opposition and practical obstacles. Even as they began to retreat, they were cast by their opponents as insignificant or as fanatics, and those views have influenced most subsequent historical accounts of them. This book joins other recent studies that have sought to reevaluate the efforts of communitarians on their own terms, to locate them in their social and political contexts, and to understand the dilemmas that they faced. The Northampton Association provides an ideal opportunity for a study of this kind. It is easily the most obscure of the main New England utopian communities of the 1840s, so its story remains unfamiliar even to many specialist scholars. In his book, Clark aims not to celebrate the men and women of the Northampton community, but to understand them better, to trace how their vision was formed, and how it came to fade again into something less radical, less ambitious, and more forgettable.
Communitarians of the 1840s set forth a variety of radical critiques of contemporary American society, based both on their own experiences and on their visions of a better world. Their attempts to realize these visions met with strong opposition and practical obstacles. Even as they began to retreat, they were cast by their opponents as insignificant or as fanatics, and those views have influenced most subsequent historical accounts of them. This book joins other recent studies that have sought to reevaluate the efforts of communitarians on their own terms, to locate them in their social and political contexts, and to understand the dilemmas that they faced. The Northampton Association provides an ideal opportunity for a study of this kind. It is easily the most obscure of the main New England utopian communities of the 1840s, so its story remains unfamiliar even to many specialist scholars. In his book, Clark aims not to celebrate the men and women of the Northampton community, but to understand them better, to trace how their vision was formed, and how it came to fade again into something less radical, less ambitious, and more forgettable.
Editions
Hardcover
from Cornell Univ Pr (June 1, 1995)
9780801427305 | details & prices | 6.50 × 9.50 × 1.00 in. | 1.30 lbs | List price $40.00
About: In 1842 a group of radical abolitionists formed a community in Northampton, Massachusetts, in order to pioneer "a better and purer state of society.
About: In 1842 a group of radical abolitionists formed a community in Northampton, Massachusetts, in order to pioneer "a better and purer state of society.
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
1st pbk edition from Univ of Massachusetts Pr (December 1, 2003)
9781558494169 | details & prices | 288 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $24.95
About: It used to be virtually unquestioned that history belonged to the successful.
About: It used to be virtually unquestioned that history belonged to the successful.
from Cornell Univ Pr (June 1, 1996)
9780801480126 | details & prices | List price $27.50
About: In 1842 a group of radical abolitionists formed a community in Northampton, Massachusetts, in order to pioneer "a better and purer state of society.
About: In 1842 a group of radical abolitionists formed a community in Northampton, Massachusetts, in order to pioneer "a better and purer state of society.
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