Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-319) and index.
Contents
Set and setting : the roots of the 1960s-era communes -- The new communes emerge : 1960-1965 -- Communes begin to spread : 1965-1967 -- Out of the Haight and back to the land : countercultural communes after the summer of love -- Searching for a common center : religious and spiritual communes -- Secular visionaries : communes for social reform and the good life -- Ends and means : communal ideologies, economics, and organization -- The people of the communes -- Doing it : daily life in the communes -- Moving on -- Afterword : communal life after 1975.