Utopias: A Brief History from Ancient Writings to Virtual
Communities May 2012, Wiley-Blackwell This price is valid for
United States. Change location to view local pricing and
availability. This brief history connects the past and present
of utopian thought, from the first utopias in ancient Greece,
right up to present day visions of cyberspace communities and
paradise. - Explores the purpose of utopias, what they reveal
about the societies who conceive them, and how utopias have
changed over the centuries - Unique in including both non-
Western and Western visions of utopia - Explores the many forms
utopias have taken – prophecies and oratory, writings, political
movements, world's fairs, physical communities – and also
discusses high-tech and cyberspace visions for the first time -
The first book to analyze the implicitly utopian dimensions of
reform crusades like Technocracy of the 1930s and Modernization
Theory of the 1950s, and the laptop classroom initiatives of
recent years