02421nam 22005534a 450 991045523620332120200520144314.01-282-40779-197866124077960-313-03913-5(CKB)1000000000807104(EBL)492404(OCoLC)56332241(SSID)ssj0000335990(PQKBManifestationID)11261370(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000335990(PQKBWorkID)10278529(PQKB)11520032(MiAaPQ)EBC492404(Au-PeEL)EBL492404(CaPaEBR)ebr10349912(CaONFJC)MIL240779(EXLCZ)99100000000080710420031023d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCommunal utopias and the American experience[electronic resource] secular communities, 1824-2000 /Robert P. SuttonWestport, Conn. Praeger Publishers20041 online resource (182 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-275-97553-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.New Harmony and Owenite communities -- Utopian socialist communities -- Icaria -- Gilded age socialist cooperatives -- Great depression communities -- Modern communal utopias.This important study begins with America's first secular utopia at New Harmony in 1824 and traces successive utopian experiments in the United States through the following centuries. For the first time, readers will come to realize that American communalism is not a disjointed, erratic, almost ephemeral part of our past, but has been an on-going, essential part of American history. We have a communal utopian motif that sets the history of the United States apart from any other nation. The utopian communal story is just one other dimension of the Puritan concept that America was a city upon a hUtopiasUnited StatesHistoryElectronic books.UtopiasHistory.307.77/0973/09034Sutton Robert P145339MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455236203321Communal utopias and the American experience2225746UNINA