California S Utopian Colonies
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California S Utopian Colonies
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Author : Robert V. Hine
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1983
California S Utopian Colonies written by Robert V. Hine and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with History categories.
California S Utopian Colonies By Robert V Hine
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Author : Robert V. Hine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
California S Utopian Colonies By Robert V Hine written by Robert V. Hine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Collective settlements categories.
California Utopianism
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Author : Robert V. Hine
language : en
Publisher: Course Technology
Release Date : 1981
California Utopianism written by Robert V. Hine and has been published by Course Technology this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Social Science categories.
Bread And Hyacinths
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Author : Lionel Rolfe
language : en
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Release Date : 2011-03-24
Bread And Hyacinths written by Lionel Rolfe and has been published by SCB Distributors this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-24 with History categories.
This fascinating account of Los Angeles’ buried past tells the story of Job Harriman, a former minister turned union organizer and attorney, who in 1911 was narrowly defeated as mayor of Los Angeles running on the Socialist ticket. Behind his defeat lay an unthinkably brutal, stop-at-nothing campaign headed by Los Angeles’ de facto political boss, General Harrison Gray Otis, publisher of the Los Angeles Times. Harriman’s progressive mayoral campaign represented an epic battle for the future of Los Angeles against the bitterly reactionary forces of Otis and his backers. The authors amply demonstrate that Otis was the victor in this contest, and how that victory explains much about why Los Angeles is the way it is today. "Bread and Hyacinths" follows Harriman through his childhood as an Indiana farm boy, through his formative years as a union organizer to his emergence as a key figure in the pivotal era of American socialism. It eloquently describes his lifelong optimism and determination in the face of poor health, financial woes, and personal and political troubles. Viewed in perspective against the backdrop of a city - and a nation - torn by labor strife and political corruption, Harriman emerges as a crucial, if ultimately marginalized, figure in American political history. Viewed in the light of today's uncertain economy and political unrest, this period of California history can be seen as a disturbing omen of things to come. "Bread and Hyacinths" has been optioned as a motion picture by director Paul Haggis ("Crash", "Billion Dollar Baby", "Flags of Our Fathers"). This brief, useful book illuminates an obscure chapter in the history of Los Angeles and America’s socialist movement...The book also serves as a corrective to the Times’s distorted history of the Llano del Rio Cooperative Colony, a socialist community founded by Harriman in Southern Calfornia’s Antelope Valley. – Los Angeles Times This slender but potent book draws us into an early and unfamiliar era of Southern California, when Los Angeles seemed more like Charcoal Alley than Lotusland...[A] fine example of what regional publishing can and ought to be: vigorous, knowing, committed and unafraid, even if a bit eccentric. – Los Angeles Daily News
Utopian And Dystopian Visions Of California In The Historical Imagination
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Author : Michelle E. Morton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Utopian And Dystopian Visions Of California In The Historical Imagination written by Michelle E. Morton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with categories.
West Of Eden
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Author : Iain Boal
language : en
Publisher: PM Press
Release Date : 2012-04-01
West Of Eden written by Iain Boal and has been published by PM Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-01 with History categories.
In the shadow of the Vietnam War, a significant part of an entire generation refused their assigned roles in the American century. Some took their revolutionary politics to the streets, others decided simply to turn away, seeking to build another world together, outside the state and the market. West of Eden charts the remarkable flowering of communalism in the 1960s and ’70s, fueled by a radical rejection of the Cold War corporate deal, utopian visions of a peaceful green planet, the new technologies of sound and light, and the ancient arts of ecstatic release. The book focuses on the San Francisco Bay Area and its hinterlands, which have long been creative spaces for social experiment. Haight-Ashbury’s gift economy—its free clinic, concerts, and street theatre—and Berkeley’s liberated zones—Sproul Plaza, Telegraph Avenue, and People’s Park—were embedded in a wider network of producer and consumer co-ops, food conspiracies, and collective schemes. Using memoir and flashbacks, oral history and archival sources, West of Eden explores the deep historical roots and the enduring, though often disavowed, legacies of the extraordinary pulse of radical energies that generated forms of collective life beyond the nuclear family and the world of private consumption, including the contradictions evident in such figures as the guru/predator or the hippie/entrepreneur. There are vivid portraits of life on the rural communes of Mendocino and Sonoma, and essays on the Black Panther communal households in Oakland, the latter-day Diggers of San Francisco, the Native American occupation of Alcatraz, the pioneers of live/work space for artists, and the Bucky dome as the iconic architectural form of the sixties. Due to the prevailing amnesia—partly imposed by official narratives, partly self-imposed in the aftermath of defeat—West of Eden is not only a necessary act of reclamation, helping to record the unwritten stories of the motley generation of communards and antinomians now passing, but is also intended as an offering to the coming generation who will find here, in the rubble of the twentieth century, a past they can use—indeed one they will need—in the passage from the privations of commodity capitalism to an ample life in common.
California Utopia
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Author : Emmett A. Greenwalt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
California Utopia written by Emmett A. Greenwalt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with categories.
In Search Of The Perfect Society
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Author : Megan Perle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
In Search Of The Perfect Society written by Megan Perle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Utopias categories.
Love Valley
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Author : Conrad Eugene Ostwalt
language : en
Publisher: Popular Press
Release Date : 1998
Love Valley written by Conrad Eugene Ostwalt and has been published by Popular Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
Love Valley is a small town in rural North Carolina. Its genesis in 1954 marked the fulfillment of a dream for founder Andy Barker. Barker cultivated two visions as a young man--he wanted to build a Christian community, and he wanted to be a cowboy. The result of his vision is Barker's utopian experiment. The town boasts a saloon, general store, hitching posts, and rodeos. Yet, above all of this stands a little church--the heart of what Barker conceived as his Christian utopia. This unique combination has led to more than forty years of philanthropic ventures, controversial events such as the Love Valley Rock Festival, stories and legends, and political ambition. Love Valley: An American Utopia captures the history of this town in narrative form while arguing that Love Valley's founders were motivated by utopian goals.
Utopia On The 6th Floor
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Author : Steven H Propp
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2004-11
Utopia On The 6th Floor written by Steven H Propp and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-11 with categories.
Can you create an ideal world of your own? A utopia? In 2022, the administration and staff of the University of Northern California think so; that's why they've created a cozy little campus in the hills of Placerville, secure (behind thick concrete walls) from the social chaos that prevails in the larger society. Here, they can devote themselves wholly to the life of the mind. However, problems soon appear: "Generation Z" students chafe under the campus restrictions (including mandatory use of sexual suppressant drugs), and begin an "Underground" movement of protest. History Professor Morton Thompson finds himself in the middle, as well as coping with violent attacks on the campus. A quasi-governmental agency called UniCom (creators of a database called "The BEAST" that is a terrifying violation of civil liberties) enters the picture, determined to use the situation for its own ends, leading to a thrilling and unexpected climax. Discover the difficulties in trying to flee from the problems of the world, as Professor Thompson and others await the appearance of the mysterious "Generation A"... Eight lectures: The core of Professor Thompson's course in American Utopian Communities, are also appended, presenting an outline of the history of "utopian"/intentional communities in this country.