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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788217803321

Autore

Pitzer Donald E

Titolo

America's Communal Utopias [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : The University of North Carolina Press, 2010

ISBN

1-4696-0445-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (560 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BoyerPaul S

Disciplina

335.90973

Soggetti

Collective settlements - History - United States

Communitarianism - United States

Socialism, Communism & Anarchism

Political Science

Law, Politics & Government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Communitarian Societies in Colonial America; The Shakers of Mother Ann Lee; George Rapp's Harmony Society; The New Moral World of Robert Owen and New Harmony; One Heart and Mind: Communal Life and Values among the Mormons; Brook Farm and the Fourierist Phalanxes: Immediatism, Gradualism, and American Utopian Socialism; The Community of True Inspiration from Germany to the Amana Colonies; Religious Orders and Monastic Communalism in America; Free Love and Community: John Humphrey Noyes and the Oneida Perfectionists

An American Elysium: The Icarian CommunitiesEric Jansson and the Bishop Hill Colony; Living in the Ark: Four Centuries of Hutterite Faith and Community; American Jewish Agricultural Colonies; Cyrus Reed Teed and the Koreshan Unity; The Theosophical Communities and Their Ideal of Universal Brotherhood; California's Socialist Utopias; Father Divine and the Peace Mission; Appendix: America's Communal Utopias Founded by 1965; Bibliographical Essay; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z