Two Hundred Years of American Communes
Two Hundred Years of American Communes

Author: Yaacov Oved

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-09-08

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1351317865

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The United States is the only modern nation in which communes have continuously existed for the past two hundred years. This definitive history of communes in America examines the major factors that have supported the existence and growth of communes throughout American history. The most impressive survey of the communal experience since the works of Noyes and Nordhoff, it is informed by a deep respect for the human subjects and organizational forms of American communes. The findings in the analytical chapters are of considerably theoretical import beyond the historical narrative.Oved details the founding, growth, development, and sometimes failure of alternative societies from 1735 to 1939: Icaria, Ephrata, Oneida, Shaker, religious, secular, and socialist communes. Extensive reference material cited will assure this work a special place in the archives of the literature on communes.

Utopias and Utopians
Utopias and Utopians

Author: Richard C.S. Trahair

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-31

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 113594766X

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Utopian ventures are worth close attention, to help us understand why some succeed and others fail, for they offer hope for an improved life on earth. Utopias and Utopians is a comprehensive guide to utopian communities and their founders. Some works look at literary utopias or political utopias, etc., and others examine the utopias of only one country: this work examines utopias from antiquity to the present and surveys utopian efforts around the world. Of more than 600 alphabetically arranged entries roughly half are descriptions of utopian ventures; the other half are biographies of those who were involved. Entries are followed by a list of sources and a general bibliography concludes the volume.

The American Cyclopaedia
The American Cyclopaedia

Author: George Ripley

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-07-22

Total Pages: 818

ISBN-13: 3382815664

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1873. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.