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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... develop between me , the Israeli kibbutz member , and the Christian pacifist members of the commune , the latter about whom I had until then only read . In the evening there was a meeting with commune members who wanted to hear about my ...
... develop a communal settlement movement , inter alia because its leaders and theorists did not believe in the communitarian alternative . Morris Hillquit . one of the socialist leaders in those years , expressed the prevailing attitude ...
... developed as a community of hermits in the tradition of the Eastern Monasticism founded by Pachomius . " The Establishment of Ephrata as a Celibate Community The area was populated gradually . During 1732 to 1735 many of Beissel's ...
... developed into The Academy of Classical Studies , its reputation reaching even the large urban centers of Phil- adelphia and Baltimore . One of the most important innovations was the founding of a Sabbath School , intended to teach ...
... develop as a separate sect , searching for ways to expand while adhering to their faith undis- turbed . The governor of Surinam ( a Dutch colony ) who was close to some of the members in the sect , offered them a place in the New World ...
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 |