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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... Collective settlements - United States - History - Case studies . 2. Religious communities - United States - History - Case studies . I. Title . HX653.084 ISBN 0-88738-113-8 1987 335'.973 87-5988 Contents Preface Introduction : My ...
... 333 Part II : A Collective Profile in a Comparative Approach 18. Ideological Principles 369 19. Social Activity and Management 379 20. Education , Culture , and Rituals 393 vi Two Hundred Years of American Communes 21. The Family.
... collective life . I met Benedictus of Nursia who founded the monastery at Monte Cassino , Italy , and paved the way in Western monasticism to a productive communal struc- ture . From there , through a time tunnel , I reached the ...
... collective community , and find an edu- cational system which would socialize people who had grown up in a compet- itive society . They had to establish a relationship with a hostile , often antagonistic environment while guarding their ...
... collective way of life as the ultimate Christian way and established a rural commune to realize it . When Hitler rose to power they were persecuted and had to flee from Germany . After years of hard- ship and wandering in exile they ...
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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 |