LEADER 02421nam 22005534a 450 001 9910455236203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-40779-1 010 $a9786612407796 010 $a0-313-03913-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000807104 035 $a(EBL)492404 035 $a(OCoLC)56332241 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000335990 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11261370 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000335990 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10278529 035 $a(PQKB)11520032 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC492404 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL492404 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10349912 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL240779 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000807104 100 $a20031023d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCommunal utopias and the American experience$b[electronic resource] $esecular communities, 1824-2000 /$fRobert P. Sutton 210 $aWestport, Conn. $cPraeger Publishers$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (182 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-275-97553-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aNew Harmony and Owenite communities -- Utopian socialist communities -- Icaria -- Gilded age socialist cooperatives -- Great depression communities -- Modern communal utopias. 330 $aThis 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 h 606 $aUtopias$zUnited States$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aUtopias$xHistory. 676 $a307.77/0973/09034 700 $aSutton$b Robert P$0145339 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455236203321 996 $aCommunal utopias and the American experience$92225746 997 $aUNINA