Nineteenth-Century Utopianism and the American Social Ima...
Peters, Gerald
Religious sectarianism played a significant role in the early settlement and social development of the United States. Although historians have minimized what these societies contributed to the creation of a uniquely American "social imaginary, " this era of social experimentalism drew the attention of highly influential European writers including Goethe, Tolstoy, Marx and Weber. More recent social thinkers like Benedict Anderson, Charles Taylo...
