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Land, Nationalization of --- Land tenure --- Terres --- Land, Nationalization of. --- Land tenure. --- Nationalisations --- George, Henry, --- Progress and poverty (George, Henry). --- Great Britain.
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The entertaining story of four utopian writers-Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman-and their continuing influence todayFor readers reared on the dystopian visions of Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Handmaid's Tale, the idea of a perfect society may sound more sinister than enticing. In this lively literary history of a time before "Orwellian" entered the cultural lexicon, Michael Robertson reintroduces us to a vital strain of utopianism that seized the imaginations of late nineteenth-century American and British writers.The Last Utopians delves into the biographies of four key figures--Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman-who lived during an extraordinary period of literary and social experimentation. The publication of Bellamy's Looking Backward in 1888 opened the floodgates of an unprecedented wave of utopian writing. Morris, the Arts and Crafts pioneer, was a committed socialist whose News from Nowhere envisions a workers' Arcadia. Carpenter boldly argued that homosexuals constitute a utopian vanguard. Gilman, a women's rights activist and the author of "The Yellow Wallpaper," wrote numerous utopian fictions, including Herland, a visionary tale of an all-female society.These writers, Robertson shows, shared a belief in radical equality, imagining an end to class and gender hierarchies and envisioning new forms of familial and romantic relationships. They held liberal religious beliefs about a universal spirit uniting humanity. They believed in social transformation through nonviolent means and were committed to living a simple life rooted in a restored natural world. And their legacy remains with us today, as Robertson describes in entertaining firsthand accounts of contemporary utopianism, ranging from Occupy Wall Street to a Radical Faerie retreat.
Utopias in literature. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General . --- Utopian literature --- Bellamy, Edward, --- Morris, William, --- Carpenter, Edward, --- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Moris, V., --- Morisu, Wiriamu, --- Morris, Uilʹi͡am, --- Morris, William M., --- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins Stetson, --- Perkins, Charlotte Anna, --- Stetson, Charles Walter, --- Stetson, Charlotte Perkins, --- Karpenter, Ėduard, --- Bellamy, Edvard, --- Beramī, Edowādo, --- Morris, Uilʹi︠a︡m, --- Морис, В., --- Bellamy, Edward --- Bellamy, Edvard --- Beramī, Edowādo --- בעלאמי, ע. --- בעללאמי, א. --- Charles Fourier. --- Charlotte Perkins Gilman. --- Edward Bellamy. --- Edward Carpenter. --- Equality. --- Henri de Saint-Simon. --- Henry George. --- Herland. --- John Ruskin. --- Looking Backward. --- Nationalism. --- News from Nowhere. --- Progress and Poverty. --- Radical Faeries. --- Robert Owen. --- The Nature of Gothic. --- Thomas More. --- Towards Democracy. --- Uranians. --- Urning. --- Utopia. --- Walt Whitman. --- William Morris. --- World's Mother. --- community. --- economic equality. --- education. --- egalitarianism. --- everyday utopias. --- homogenic love. --- homosexuality. --- industrial capitalism. --- intermediate sex. --- labor. --- last utopians. --- literary dystopia. --- motherhood. --- mothers. --- progress. --- radical equality. --- religion. --- social thought. --- social transformation. --- socialism. --- sustainability. --- technology. --- transatlantic utopianism. --- universal spirit. --- utopia. --- utopian literature. --- utopianism. --- women.
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The unlikely story of how Americans canonized Adam Smith as the patron saint of free marketsOriginally published in 1776, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations was lauded by America's founders as a landmark work of Enlightenment thinking about national wealth, statecraft, and moral virtue. Today, Smith is one of the most influential icons of economic thought in America. Glory Liu traces how generations of Americans have read, reinterpreted, and weaponized Smith's ideas, revealing how his popular image as a champion of American-style capitalism and free markets is a historical invention. Drawing on a trove of illuminating archival materials, Liu tells the story of how an unassuming Scottish philosopher captured the American imagination and played a leading role in shaping American economic and political ideas. She shows how Smith became known as the father of political economy in the nineteenth century and was firmly associated with free trade, and how, in the aftermath of the Great Depression, the Chicago School of Economics transformed him into the preeminent theorist of self-interest and the miracle of free markets. Liu explores how a new generation of political theorists and public intellectuals has sought to recover Smith's original intentions and restore his reputation as a moral philosopher. Charting the enduring fascination that this humble philosopher from Scotland has held for American readers over more than two centuries, Adam Smith's America shows how Smith continues to be a vehicle for articulating perennial moral and political anxieties about modern capitalism.
Philosophy. --- Economics --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- History. --- Smith, Adam, --- United States --- Economic policy --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- Smith, Adam --- Economic policy. --- Economic conditions. --- A Monetary History of the United States. --- Ambivalence. --- American Capitalism. --- American Enlightenment. --- American System (economic plan). --- American Thinker. --- Anna Schwartz. --- Bruno Hildebrand. --- Buoy. --- Buton. --- Capitalism. --- Chicago school of economics. --- Christian Kabbalah. --- Constantine IV. --- Corippus. --- E. P. Thompson. --- Early modern period. --- Ecclesiastical Latin. --- Economics. --- Economist. --- Economy. --- Essay. --- Ethics. --- Family resemblance. --- Forgotten man. --- Francis Fukuyama. --- Frank Hahn. --- Fraud. --- Free trade. --- Friedrich List. --- Fritz Saxl. --- Gilded Age. --- Greek fire. --- Historical figure. --- Hypothesis. --- Ideology. --- International trade. --- Interpersonal relationship. --- Invisible hand. --- Isaac Casaubon. --- Jacob Viner. --- James Tassie. --- Jewish history. --- Jewish studies. --- John Bates Clark. --- John Maynard Keynes. --- Kanji. --- Labor theory of value. --- Laissez-faire. --- Lateran. --- Learning. --- Lecture. --- Liberty Fund. --- Lifestyle (sociology). --- Lighting. --- Lionel Robbins. --- Marquis de Condorcet. --- Mercantilism. --- Michael Burawoy. --- Michael Freeden. --- Michael Polanyi. --- Milton Friedman. --- Moral economy. --- Muslim world. --- Neoliberalism. --- Occupy movement. --- Opportunity cost. --- Persuasion. --- Physiocracy. --- Policy advocacy. --- Political economy. --- Politics. --- Progress and Poverty. --- Propaganda. --- Protectionism. --- Raymond Geuss. --- Re-Define. --- Retirement. --- Richard T. Ely. --- Robert Nozick. --- Roman Law. --- Ronald L. Meek. --- Scottish Enlightenment. --- Self-interest. --- Sexual desire. --- Social phenomenon. --- Suggestion. --- Tariff of 1824. --- Tariff. --- The Philosopher. --- The Price of Admission. --- The Road to Serfdom. --- The Theory of Moral Sentiments. --- The Wealth of Nations. --- Thomas Robert Malthus. --- Treatise. --- Utilitarianism. --- Wealth. --- Whiggism. --- Willibald.
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