Utopia: New Translation and Annotated EditionIn Thomas Mores hugely influential Utopia, a traveller recounts his discovery of an island nation in which the inhabitants enjoy unprecedented social cohesion and justice. The book imagines a community in which laws, personal relations, and professional ambition are based on reason, in contrast with the tradition bound superstitions of Europe, which were, in Mores eyes, impediments to equality and peaceful coexistence. One of the indicators of the