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Sabotaged Dreams of Utopia in Texas
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Title
Sabotaged [electronic resource] : Dreams of Utopia in Texas / James Pratt.
ISBN
1496220145
9781496220141
9781496207920
Published
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource
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Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - 2020 Complete.
Project MUSE - 2020 US Regional Studies, South.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 20, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Charles Fourier's philosophy
The doctor's community
A better site for a Phalanstere
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: Reunion influences on Dallas.
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