{"id":116,"date":"2016-04-26T07:43:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T11:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fysutopiasspring2016012\/?page_id=116"},"modified":"2016-04-26T07:56:42","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T11:56:42","slug":"background","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fysutopiasspring2016012\/background\/","title":{"rendered":"Background"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Cabet was largely influenced in his ideal of utopia by Thomas More\n<ul>\n<li>Cabet read More&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Utopia\u00a0<\/em>while in exile in England<\/li>\n<li>It provided the groundwork for Icarie<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Icarians looked primarily to\u00a0<em>Voyage en Icarie\u00a0<\/em>for utopian inspiration<\/li>\n<li>France during the 1800s was extremely tumultuous\n<ul>\n<li>Just gotten done with the Revolution of 1789<\/li>\n<li>King Charles X<\/li>\n<li>Louis Phillipe<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>France and her problems fostered strong idealism in the Icarians\n<ul>\n<li>Liberty, fraternity, equality<\/li>\n<li>Themes can be found in Cabet&#8217;s writings and the community<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Overall, there were 5 American Icarian communities\n<ul>\n<li>I focused on Texas and Nauvoo, Illinois<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>At one point, the Icarians lived with the Mormons in Nauvoo\n<ul>\n<li>The joint community had up to 15,000 people\n<ul>\n<li>Chicago only at 8,000 at the time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Cabet was kicked out of his own creation\n<ul>\n<li>After dealing with fraud charges and becoming increasingly dictatorial, Cabet became the central problem<\/li>\n<li>Two factions emerged:\n<ul>\n<li>Cabetists and Dissidents<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Dissidents kicked the Cabetists (and Cabet) out<\/li>\n<li>Cabet died just days after<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cabet was largely influenced in his ideal of utopia by Thomas More Cabet read More&#8217;s\u00a0Utopia\u00a0while in exile in England It provided the groundwork for Icarie Icarians looked primarily to\u00a0Voyage en Icarie\u00a0for utopian inspiration France during the 1800s was extremely tumultuous<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2823,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-116","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fysutopiasspring2016012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fysutopiasspring2016012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fysutopiasspring2016012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fysutopiasspring2016012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fysutopiasspring2016012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fysutopiasspring2016012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fysutopiasspring2016012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}