Subject
Research Guides
First Year Seminars:
Imagining Your Perfect World
This guide is intended as a research tool to help you locate background information, books, articles, and internet/web links on the topic of utopias and alternative communities.
Background Information Sources
| Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History (3 volumes) | REF E169.1 E624 2001 |
| Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century (3 vols.) | REF E169.1 E626 2001 |
| Dictionary of the History of Ideas (5 vols.) | REF CB5.D52 |
| Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion | REF BL65. P7 E53 1998 |
| Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience | REF BL2525.E53 1988 |
| Dictionary of American Communal and Utopian history | REF HX653. F65 1980 |
Books
Search the library catalog for books on your subject using words or word combinations below, or visit the library’s 2nd floor and browse the following call number ranges: BL, E, HX.
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Newspaper, Magazine, and Academic Journal Articles
- Expanded Academic ASAP/InfoTrac: full-text journal, magazine, and newspaper articles.
- LexisNexis: large database of current and archived newspaper articles.
- General Reference Center/InfoTrac: full-text journal, magazine, and newspaper articles
Internet Resources
Several internet resources have been selected below. Additional links are available from the Web Resources page.
- Utopian Communities
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/amerst/utopia.htm
links to American utopian communities open to the public - The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World
http://utopia.nypl.org
site for New York Public Library exhibition, with links, bibliographies - Intentional Communities
http://www.ic.org
resources and information on ecovillages, residential land trusts, communes, student coops, urban housing cooperatives, alternative communities - Hancock Shaker Village
http://www.hancockshakervillage.org
history of the Shaker movement and religion, with links, bibliographies - Brook Farm
http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/ideas/brhistory.html
history of Brook Farm, West Roxbury, Mass. - Ecovillage
http://www.ecotopia.com/ecovillage/
site for planned sustainable community in Santa Cruz, Cal.