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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... meeting with commune members who wanted to hear about my kibbutz . Spontaneously I greeted them as " distant brothers , " not attaching any special meaning to the phrase . At the end of the meeting one of the old - timers , a tall ...
... many battles , were a meeting place for two groups whose origins were remote . The first was a small isolated group of English Quakers known as Shakers . They lived collectively and did Communes in the History of the United States 7.
... meetings , and agape ( love feasts ) were conducted separately . One of the im- portant principles which guided the builders was their adherence to the bibli- cal tradition of not using any iron for the temple ( Kings 1/7 ; Exodus 25/20 ...
... meetings , more frequently than chapters from the New Testament.26 Ephrata , as other communes before it , adhered to the belief in the millen- nium , and its members lived in expectation of the Kingdom of Heaven , for which they ...
... meeting with Beissel . He went to Ephrata and was invited to stay at Zion Hall of the Zionitic Brotherhood ; but even though Beissel was at the time staying at home — a short distance away they never met . Each of them was convinced ...
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 |