The Utopians

The Utopians: Six Attempts to Build the Perfect Society

Anna Neima (author)

Santiniketan-Sriniketan in India, Dartington Hall in England, Atarashiki Mura in Japan, the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in France, the Bruderhof in Germany and Trabuco College in America: six experimental communities established in the aftermath of the First World War, each aiming to change the world.

Anna Neima's The Utopians is an absorbing and vivid account of these collectives and their charismatic leaders and reveals them to be full of eccentric characters, outlandish lifestyles and unchecked idealism.

Dismissed and even mocked in their time, yet, a century later, their influence still resonates in progressive education, environmentalism, medical research and mindfulness training. Without such inspirational experiments in how to live, post-war society would have been a poorer place.

Anna Neima is a historian with a PhD from the University of Cambridge. She lives in north London with her husband and son. The Utopians is her first book.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Picador; Main Market edition (21 July 2022)
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9781529023107
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.34 x 2.54 x 20.32 cm