LEADER 03810nam 2200517 450 001 9910825625903321 005 20191111150637.0 010 $a1-9788-0824-0 010 $a1-9788-0826-7 024 7 $a10.36019/9781978808263 035 $a(CKB)4100000009590532 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5963040 035 $a(DE-B1597)637657 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781978808263 035 $a(OCoLC)1127190427 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009590532 100 $a20191111h20192020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAmerican community $eradical experiments in intentional living /$fMark S. Ferrara 210 1$aNew Brunswick, Camden ;$aNewark, New Jersey ;$aLondon, England :$cRutgers University Press,$d2019. 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource (222 pages) 311 $a1-9788-0823-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 209-216) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tIntroduction: Community of Goods in the Colonies -- $t1 Revolution and Social Reformation -- $t2 Sleeping Cars, Spiritualism, and Cooperatives -- $t3 Theosophy, Depression, and the New Deal -- $t4 Hippies, Arcology, and Ecovillages -- $tAfterword: The Next Wave -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNOTES -- $tBIBLIOGRAPHY -- $tINDEX -- $tABOUT THE AUTHOR 330 $aMainstream notions of the ?American Dream? usually revolve around the ownership of private property, a house of one?s own. Yet for the past 400 years, a large number of Americans have dared to dream bigger and bolder, choosing to live in intentional communities that pooled resources, and they worked to ensure the well-being of all their members. American Community takes us inside forty of the most interesting intentional communities in the nation?s history, from the colonial era to the present day. You will learn about such little-known experiments in cooperative living as the Icarian communities, which took the utopian ideas expounded in a 1840 French novel and put them into practice, ultimately spreading to five states over fifty years. Plus, it covers more recent communities such as Arizona?s Arcosanti, designed by architect Paolo Soleri as a model for ecologically sustainable living. In this provocative and engaging book, Mark Ferrara guides readers through an array of intentional communities that boldly challenged capitalist economic arrangements in order to attain ideals of harmony, equality, and social justice. By shining a light on these forgotten histories, it shows that far from being foreign concepts, communitarianism and socialism have always been vital parts of the American experience. 606 $aCommunal living$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aCollective settlements$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aUtopias$zUnited States$xHistory 610 $aAmerican Dream, American, Americans, community, communities, intentional communities, colonial era, Icarian communities, cooperative living, utopia, Acrosanti, Paolo Soleri, capitalism, economics, harmony, equality, social justice, communitarianism, socialism, American experience, utopian ideas, intentional living, democratic socialism, millennials, history, sociology, sustainability, homegrown socialism, American history, leadership, community building, communalism, religious studies, co-housing, ecovillage. 615 0$aCommunal living$xHistory. 615 0$aCollective settlements$xHistory. 615 0$aUtopias$xHistory. 676 $a307.770973 700 $aFerrara$b Mark S.$01605297 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825625903321 996 $aAmerican community$94101294 997 $aUNINA