Two Hundred Years of American CommunesTransaction Publishers, 1987 M01 1 - 516 pages 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. |
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... America Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Oved , Yaacov . Two hundred years of American communes . Includes index . 1. Collective settlements - United States - History - Case studies . 2. Religious communities - United ...
Iaácov Oved. Contents Preface Introduction : My Encounter with American Communes Part I : The Historical Sequence 1. Communes in the History of the United States 2. Ephrata and the First Communes in North America 3. The Shakers : American ...
... America . Until that time I had a vague image of communal failures related to this continent . Now , on a sys- tematic journey , I rediscovered the American continent . For this I am in- debted to Shalom Worm from kibbutz Ramat Yochanan ...
... American communal history . New horizons opened when I discovered a surprisingly extensive lit- erature on the subject , the richness of which caused me to neglect any further urge to search for communes elsewhere in the world and to ...
... American society as a whole , enabled them to take root ; ( 2 ) changing historical factors which throughout history aided and abetted the growing process of the communes after they had taken root on American soil . The Wide Open ...
Contents
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The Shakers American Religious Communes | 39 |
Religious Immigrant Communes | 69 |
Robert Owen and the First Socialist Communes | 109 |
Fourierist Communitarian Settlements | 129 |
Oneida Commune with Complex Marriage | 167 |
Icaria The Socialist Immigrant Communes | 193 |
Sunrise and Anarchist Communities | 311 |
The Hutterites A Bridge between Past and Present | 333 |
A COLLECTIVE PROFILE IN A COMPARATIVE APPROACH | 367 |
Ideological Principles | 369 |
Social Activity and Management | 379 |
Education Culture and Rituals | 393 |
The Family and Womens Status in the Communes | 411 |
Economic Assets and Liabilities | 427 |
Victor Considerant and the Fourierists at La Reunion | 215 |
New Odessa A Jewish Commune of the Am Olam Group | 223 |
The Kaweah Cooperative Colony in California | 233 |
Ruskin The Communitarian Settlement in Tennessee | 247 |
Communitarian Settlements and Socialist Parties in Washington State | 257 |
The Christian Commonwealth in Georgia | 275 |
Llano de Rio A Socialist Commune in California and Louisiana | 285 |
Dualistic Relationships with the Outside World | 447 |
Dissolution of the Communes Options or Inevitability? | 467 |
Epilogue | 481 |
Appendix | 485 |
Index of Names | 495 |
Index of Communes | 499 |