Preface
The main content of this book has been previously published, along with a series of memoirs, with the title Three Miles of Rice Pudding. (The origin of this phrase will become apparent in Chapter 1.) In Utopia, Governance and the Commons, I have stripped out a lot of the personal stories and focused on the more academic content. I hope, nonetheless, that the work will remain accessible. As a future project, I may produce a further work, combining all of the memoir and narrative elements of Three Miles. The reader may wish to check my Amazon authors page for news of this.
Meanwhile, I hope you will enjoy this work. I regard it as a ‘commons’ and am happy for it to be shared, in any format, on any platform, provided that an acknowledgement is given to the author and links provided back to where I have posted the manuscript. This revised edition contains only minor changes.