Sabotaged : dreams of utopia in Texas /

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"Sabotaged is the account of French, Swiss, and Belgian intellectuals who followed Victor Considerant to Texas in 1855 in a quixotic attempt to fulfill their dreams of a new life in a utopia"--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pratt, James, 1927- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Considerant, Victor, > 1808-1893.
Fourier, Charles, > 1772-1837 > Influence.
Considerant, Victor, > 1808-1893
Fourier, Charles, > 1772-1837
Utopias > Texas > History.
Utopian socialism > Texas > History.
Collective settlements > Texas > History.
Utopies > Texas > Histoire.
Socialisme utopique > Texas > Histoire.
Communautés > Texas > Histoire.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
Collective settlements
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Utopian socialism
Utopias
La Réunion (Tex.) > History.
Texas
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Charles Fourier's philosophy
  • The doctor's community
  • A better site for a Phalanstère
  • First emissaries to the frontier
  • Preparations and the view from Paris
  • Preparations and the view from Guise
  • Preparations and the view from Brussels
  • Preparations and the view from Chapelle Gaugain
  • Preparations and the view from New York
  • Finding land
  • Sailing to America
  • Expectations
  • Storm clouds
  • From sails to steam to feet
  • From Houston to the three forks
  • First days building and the bloom of June
  • Confronting the vision
  • Trying out life
  • Considerant and Texas politics
  • Downward slide
  • Demise
  • Endings and new beginning
  • Afterword: Réunion influences on Dallas.

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