By restoring minor utopias to their rightful place in the recent past, Winter fills an important gap in the history of social thought and action in the twentieth century. Jay Winter, Dreams of Peace and Freedom: Utopian Moments in the Twentieth Century (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006), 1522 Edwin Ginn, The World Peace Foundation, The Independent. Winter considers the dreamers and the nature of their dreams as well as their connections to one another and to the history of utopian thought. The book is organized around six key moments when utopian ideas and projects flourished in Europe: 1900 (the Paris World's Fair), 1919 (the Paris Peace Conference), 1937 (the Paris exhibition celebrating science and light), 1948 (the Universal Declaration of Human Rights), 1968 (moral indictments and student revolt), and 1992 (the emergence of visions of global citizenship). By restoring minor utopias to their rightful place in the recent past, Winter fills an important gap in the history of social thought and action in the twentieth century. This original book focuses on some of the twentieth-century's "minor utopias" whose stories, overshadowed by the horrors of the Holocaust and the Gulag, suggest that the future need not be as catastrophic as the past. Title Dreams of peace and freedom : utopian moments in the twentieth century / Jay Winter. I don’t think any half epoch is as useless as this one we live in, the future free, the peace of dominated experiences. Winter considers the dreamers and the nature of their dreams as well as their connections to one another and to the history of utopian thought. Yet, historian Jay Winter suggests, alongside the "major utopians" who murdered millions in their attempts to transform the world were disparate groups of people trying in their own separate ways to imagine a radically better world. Instant access to millions of titles from Our Library and it’s FREE to try All books are in clear copy here, and all files are secure so dont worry about it.
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