Hertzka, Theodor
Freiland. Ein sociales Zukunftsbild. Zweite durchgesehene Auflage.
Dresden & Leipzig, E.Pierson’s Verlag nd (preface dated May 1890).
Reference: 13591
Price: £85 [convert currency]
Full Description
8vo. vi + (2) + 330 + (2)pp. Twentieth century boards, original front and back printed wrappers mounted on upper and lower covers. A good copy internally.
Second, revised edition (the first edition had been published earlier in the same year). The book’s author, Theodor Hertzka (1845-1924), wrote this Utopian novel to set out a vision for a new self-governing socialist community, sited in East Africa but largely peopled by European settlers, and it represents a significant contribution to the literature on such topics, particularly for the emphasis Hertzka places on explaining the community’s economic basis.