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Title America's communal utopias / edited by Donald E. Pitzer ; foreword by Paul S. Boyer.

Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1997.

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 Axe Special Collections Reitz  335.9 Am35, 1997    ---  Lib Use Only
Description xxi, 537 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 495-505) and index.
Contents Introduction / Douglas E. Pitzer -- Communitarian societies in colonial America / Donald F. Durnbaugh -- The Shakers of Mother Ann Lee / Priscilla J. Brewer -- George Rapp's Harmony Society / Karl J.R. Arndt -- The new moral world of Robert Owen and New Harmony / Donald E. Pitzer -- One heart and mind: communal life and values among the Mormons / Dean L. May -- Brook Farm and the Fourierist phalanxes: immediatism, gradualism, and American utopian socialism / Carl J. Guarneri -- The Community of True Inspiration from Germany to Amana Colonies / Jonathan G. Andelson -- Religious orders and monastic communalism in America / Lawrence J. McCrank -- Free love and community: John Humphrey Noyes and the Oneida perfectionists / Lawrence Foster -- An American elysium: the Icarian communities / Robert P. Sutton -- Eric Jansson and the Bishop Hill Colony / Jon Wagner -- Living in the ark: four centuries of Hutterite faith and community / Gertrude E. Huntington -- American Jewish agricultural colonies / Pearl W. Bartelt -- Cyrus Reed Teed and the Koreshan Unity / James E. Landing -- The Theosophical communities and their ideal of universal brotherhood / J. Gordon Melton -- California's socialist utopias / Robert V. Hine -- Father Divine and the Peace Mission / Robert S. Weisbrot -- America's communal utopias founded by 1965 / compiled by Donald E. Pitzer -- Bibliographical essay / Donald E. Pitzer.
Note 35902004207151 c.1 Special Collec. Reitz. Gift of Charles Reitz.
Subject Collective settlements -- United States -- History.
Communitarianism -- United States.
Communal living -- United States -- History.
Added Author Pitzer, Donald E.
ISBN 0807846090 (pbk. : alk. paper)
080782299X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807822999 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807846094 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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