The Encyclopedia of Australian Utopian Communalism

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Abstract:

The project makes an attempt to record the details of all known state wise Australian ‘utopian’ texts till the mid-1970s, such as “The New Arcadia: An Australian Story” by Horace Tucker and “The Curse and its Cure” by Thomas Pennington Lucas. It also provides information of Australian ‘intentional communities’ or ‘communal groups’ such as the ‘Co-operative Home’ and ‘Kalevan Kansa’ whose members strived to lead a utopian way of life.

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