Flashcard sets with a 'brook farm' term meaning 'a transcendentalist utopian experiment, put into practice by transcendentalist former unitarian minister george ripley at a farm in west roxbury, massachusetts, at that time nine miles from boston. the community, in operation from 1841 to 1847, was inspired by the socialist concepts of charles fourier. fourierism was the belief that there could be a utopian society where people could share together to have a better lifestyle'

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