Utopias in American History

The concept of “utopia” (meaning “nowhere”) was coined by Thomas More, in his book of the same name written in 1516. More imagined and wrote about an ideal country, based on Plato's Republic where citizens lived in harmony and prosperity. Utopias in American History looks at communes past and present in America, “a group of people trying to live according to their highest values: spirituality, co‐operation, economic equality or a simple lifestyle”. The author, Jyotsna Sreenivasan, chooses American history as there is a continuous existence of communes in the USA since 1735, which has no equal anywhere else in the...