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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Utopian Communities of Florida: A History of Hope

Utopian Communities of Florida: A History of Hope

Wynne, Nick
Knetsch, Joe

Hardcover

General PhotographyRegional: SouthSocial Movements

Publisher Price: $31.99

ISBN10: 1540201554
ISBN13: 9781540201553
Publisher: Arcadia Lib Ed
Published: Dec 12 2016
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Florida has long been viewed as a land of hope and endless possibilities. Visionaries seeking to establish new communities where they could escape the influences of society at large have turned to Florida to construct their utopias from the vast plantations of British philanthropists and entrepreneurs in the eighteenth century to the more exotic Koreshan Unity and its theory that humans live in the center of a Hollow Earth. Some came to the Sunshine State seeking religious freedom, such as the settlers in Moses Levy s Jewish colony, while others settled in Florida to establish alternative lifestyles, like the spiritualists of Cassadaga. Still others created their communities to practice new agricultural techniques or political philosophies. Historians Joe Knetsch and Nick Wynne examine a number of these distinctive utopian communities and how they have contributed to Florida s unique social fabric.

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