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Utopias: A Brief History from Ancient Writings to Virtual Communities
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9781405183291
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John Wiley & Sons
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Encyclopaedias & Reference Works
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Hardcover
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Year
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2012
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This brief history connects the past and present of utopian thought, from the first utopias in ancient Greece, right up to present day visions of cyberspace communities and paradise. Explores the purpose of utopias, what they reveal about the societies who conceive them, and how utopias have changed over the centuriesUnique in including both non-Western and Western visions of utopiaExplores the many forms utopias have taken prophecies and oratory, writings, political movements, world's fairs, physical communities and also discusses high-tech and cyberspace visions for the first timeThe first book to analyze the implicitly utopian dimensions of reform crusades like Technocracy of the 1930s and Modernization Theory of the 1950s, and the laptop classroom initiatives of recent years
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Author Biography
Howard P. Segal is Bird Professor of History at the University of Maine, where he has taught since 1986. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University. His previous books include Technological Utopianism in American Culture (1985), Future Imperfect: The Mixed Blessings of Technology in America (1994), Technology in America: A Brief History (1989, 1999, with Alan Marcus), and Recasting the Machine Age: Henry Ford's Village Industries (2005). He also reviews for, among other publications, Nature and the Times Higher Education.
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