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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... additional wave of immigrants , the Hutterites , arrived in the United States in 1874. The Hutterians were an Anabaptist sect which had started out as a communal sect in 1530 in Moravia . They Communes in the History of the United States ...
... addition to their characteristic integral pluralism , is perhaps the reason that there was no attempt to undermine or to uproot them . There does not seem to be an active affinity in the relation between communes and the course of ...
... addition to observing the Sabbath some of them had adopted other Jewish customs such as eating special food and circumcision . There was considerable tension and objection expressed by the Baptists in Germantown , and Beissel rejected ...
... additional house for the brothers . It was finished within the year and was the largest building in the whole county . As a result , life in Ephrata began to take an orderly course . At this stage it began to function as a commune . The ...
... addition he established a flax weaving fac- tory , a leather shop , a shoemaker's shop , and a pottery shop . The commune began to quarry stones for building houses , fences , and bridges . Some of the workshops were planned for the ...
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 |