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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... Owen and the First Socialist Communes 109 6. The Fourierist Communitarian Settlements 129 7. Oneida : Commune with Complex Marriage 167 8. Icaria : The Socialist Immigrant Communes 193 9. Victor Considerant and the Fourierists at La ...
... Owen , Victor Con- siderant , Wilhelm Weitling , and Etienne Cabet . Some of them were social reformers , others — religious sectarian radicals . They arrived full of ideas and aspirations and were accompanied by people intent on social ...
... Owen's utopian ideas started to infiltrate America by means of periodicals and literature from England . In the United States circles were formed to reexamine the social system which was supposedly unaffected by the evils of the ...
... Owen and the Owenites in Britain and America : The Quest for the New Moral World ( London : Routledge & Kegan Paul , 1969 ) , p . 98 ; Carpenter , pp . 103-13 , 119-25 , 145-58 ; Sachse , vol . 2 . pp . 360-71 . 3 The Shakers : American ...
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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 |