Pastoral Cities: Urban Ideals (History of American Thought and Culture)
“[Machor] traces the ideal of urban pastoralism back to the Old Testament prophets, More’sUtopia, Cortes’s description of the Aztecs, the Puritans, and various 18th-century Americans and 19th-century movements.  One of the book’s most valuable chapters treats urban pastoralism in Emerson, Whitman, and Hawthorne.”—R. M. Baird,Choice