A Socialist Utopia in the New South: The Ruskin Colonies in Tennessee and Georgia, 1894-1901

by W. Fitzhugh Brundage

This first book length study of the Ruskin Colonies shows how several hundred utopian socialists gathered as a cooperative community in Tennessee and Georgia in the late nineteenth century.

263 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 1996

About the author

William Fitzhugh Brundage (born 1961) is an American historian, and William B. Umstead Professor of History, at University of North Carolina. He graduated from the University of Chicago, and from Harvard University with an MA and Ph.D, in 1988. Prior to taking up his current position at the University of North Carolina, he taught at Queen's University, and University of Florida.