The Seeds of Their Own Destruction: Lessons from Utopian Experiments in Nineteenth-Century America, Part 1doi:10.2139/ssrn.3852120utopiansocialismincentivespublic choicecommunesNineteenth-century America provided an unusually fertile ground for economic and social experimentation. The combination of young ...
9 RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook utopian socialism Thesaurus Encyclopedia Wikipedia Related to utopian socialism:Scientific Socialism,Fabian socialism n (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (sometimes capitals) socialism established by the peaceful surrender...
The author admits the utopian orientation of Bishan Project, but it was different from the “Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside” or “People’s Commune” movements mobilized by the state in Mao Zedong era. Instead, it conducted experiments only in a small village, based on a...
God's way of cleansing the soul. Long's explanation of his early reticence was rational; it may even be true, though the full story is probably more complex. "The question will no doubt occur, why did I not publish the results of my experiments in etherization soon after they were ...
Surgical Operations(1847). He searched for an alternative to the nitrous oxide gas that had let him down in Massachusetts. Tragically, in the course of his experiments he became a chloroform addict. While intoxicated, he attacked a prostitute with sulfuric acid. Fearing he would now be utterly...
In America, they found a degree of political freedom unthinkable in Russia, as well as a legal order that did not target Jews for specific persecution. Relatively free and socially unmoored, these radicals launched a dizzying range of experiments in collective living. They tried to stake their ...
Initial experiments: In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, ether was used primarily as a recreational drug due to its intoxicating effects. Sir Humphry Davy discovered its potential pain-relieving properties in 1800 when he found that inhaling ether vapors relieved his toothache. Despite this ...
Writing of his research on gases, he observed, “I cannot help flattering myself that, in time, very great medicinal use will be made of the application of these different kinds of airs…” [Priestley J., Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Airs. 6 vols. 1:228, 1774]. ...
Regional planning as a distinct form of public intervention, however, first consolidated in the US in the 1920s during a period known as the Progressive Era, when many new experiments in urban government, public administration, and planning were initiated. This first phase drew upon European tradi...
Who knew we had such a Stair Car Gap? I hope our current adminstration takes note, and suitably glams-up all of America’s precious stair car fleet. We can’t be outshone again! ADVERTISEMENT Objects That Remind Me Of Cars: This Ice Cream Bar ...