In the period 1700-1850, the history of utopian thought cast light on ideas of property-holding, community, and social and political reform movements, including those for the extension of rights to slaves, women and animals. This text includes some of the best-known tracts of the period.

In the period 1700-1850, the history of utopian thought cast light on ideas of property-holding, community, and social and political reform movements, including those for the extension of rights to slaves, women and animals. Much of the later programme of communitarian communism later associated with early socialism was outlined first in utopian form, and utopian works may help us to plot the development of republican ideas of an agrarian law towards 19th-century socialism. At the same time, satires of primitivist critiques of luxury and the extension of commercial society make up one part of the "anti-utopian" branch of the tradition. This text includes some of the best-known utopian tracts of the period, drawn from a large number of libraries. It includes: Defoe's supplements to "Robinson Crusoe", which cast light on the seminal works of the period by Edmund Burke, Samual Johnson and Benjamin Disraeli; prominent socialist works, such as John Francis Bray's "A Voyage to Utopia"; satires on socialism, such as "The Island of Liberty and Equality"; and the early feminist novel of the time, James Lawrence's "The Empire of the Nairs".

Volume 1 Annus Sophiae Jubilaeus, The Sophick Constitution: or, The Evil Customs of the Worlds Reformed (1700)
[Ambrose Evans], The Adventures and Surprizing Deliverances of James Dubourdieu (1719)
[Ambrose Evans] The Adventures of Alexander Vendchurch (1719)
Daniel Defoe, Serious Reflections During the Life and Serious Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1720)
Simon Berrington, The Adventures of Sig. Gaudentio di Lucca (1737)
Volume 2 Pythagorlunister, A Journey to the Moon (1740)
[John Kirkby], The Capacity and Extent of Human Understanding (1745)
[Robert Paltock], The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins (1751)
Volume 3 [Edmund Burke], A Vindication of Natural Society (1757)
The Voyages,Travels &
Wonderful Discoveries of Capt. John Holmesby (1757)
Samuel Johnson, Rasselas (1760)
[Sarah Scott], Millenium Hall (1778)
S.T. [Horace Walpole], An Account of the Giants Lately Discovered (1766)
Private Letters from an American in England to his Friends in America (1769)
Volume 4 [John Elliott], The Travels of Hildebrand Bowman (1778)
[Thomas Spence], A Supplement to the History of Robinson Crusoe (1782)
[William Thomson],The Man in the Moon, or, Travels into the Lunar Regions (2 vols, 1783)
A Journey Lately Performed Through the Air (1784)
The Modern Atalantis
Or, the Devil in an Air Balloon (1784)
Aratus, A Voyage to the Moon Strongly Recommended to All Lovers of Real Freedom (1793)
Modern Gulliver's Travels (1796)
A.E. Libellus: or, a Brief Sketch of the History of Gotham (1798)
Volume 5 James Henry Lawrence, The Empire of the Nairs
or the Rights of Women, A Utopian Romance (4 vols, 1811)
The Last Man, Omegarus (2 Vols, 1806)
Volume 6 [Thomas Erskine], Armata, A Fragment (2 vols, 1817)
[G A Ellis], New Britain (1820)
[John Minter Morgan], The Revolt of the Bees (1839)
Volume 7 [Benjamin Disraeli], The Voyage of Captain Popanilla (1828)The History of Bullanabee and Clinkataboo (1828)
[John Trotter], Travels to Phrenologasto (1829)
Lemuel Gulliver, Sequel to Gulliver's Travels (1830)
Great Britain in 1841 (1831)
Lady Mary Fox, ed, Account of an Expedition to the Interior of New Holland (1837)
John Francis Bray, A Voyage from Utopia (1842)
Volume 8 Douglas Jerrold, The Chronicles of Clovernook (1846)
The Island of Liberty and Equality (1848)
Charles Rowcroft, The Triumph of Women, A Christmas Story (1848)
Henry Forrest, A Dream of Reform (1848) Consolidated Index