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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... To repeat , the book which deals with communitarianism was conceived , written , and published in a communitarian spirit . My deepest gratitude to all . Introduction : My Encounter with American Communes My first encounter Preface ix.
... Worm from kibbutz Ramat Yochanan , who in the 1950s wrote a series of articles published in Niv Ha ' Kevutza , in which he describes the communes in the United States . Perusing his articles xii Two Hundred Years of American Communes.
... in Niv Ha'Kevuiza from no . 10 March 1954 through no . 32 December 1959. He later published them in a book entitled Com- munes and Their Way of Life ( Tel Aviv : Ayanot , 1968 ) . Part I THE HISTORICAL SEQUENCE 1 Communes in the History.
... published their impressions.15 The early nineteenth century was an age of great spiritual , social , and polit- ical upheavals in Europe and the United States . The religious communes were considered to exemplify the possibilities ...
... published The History of Socialism in the United States t 1903 ) . He devoted the first part to the history of religious and socialist communes . He concluded by criticizing the founders of the commune for the illusion they created when ...
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 |