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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- communes, communal living
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- names of individual communities (e.g., Shakers, Oneida, Brook farm)
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Newspaper, Magazine, and Academic Journal Articles
Internet Resources
Several internet resources have been selected below. Additional links are available from the Web Resources page.