02344nam 22005294a 450 991077842650332120231002210213.01-282-40779-197866124077960-313-03913-5(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|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCommunal utopias and the American experience secular communities, 1824-2000 /Robert P. SuttonWestport, Conn. :Praeger Publishers,2004.1 online resource (x, 170 pages)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 StatesHistoryUtopiasHistory.307.77/0973/09034Sutton Robert P145339MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778426503321Communal utopias and the American experience3816521UNINA