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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... sects which , according to the surviving evidences , seem to have led a communal life . Thus I " encountered " the Catharists and the Bogomiles , the Waldenses , Albigenses , Beghards , and Lollards as well as the Taborites during the ...
... sect which in 1530 established its first commune ( see chapter on the Hutterians in this book ) . In the 1920s a group of young people in Germany founded a Christian youth movement led by the theologist Eberhardt Arnold . They were ...
... sect , arrived in 1630 as a unique group of settlers with a mission . They kept their independence and uniqueness in the New World when they received a legal charter as The Massachusetts Bay Company . This enabled them to manage their ...
... sects . There was no official religion and the various sects could claim equal rights with the established churches . Membership in a religious sect was a norm accepted by the law . Furthermore , there being no preferred religion , many ...
... sects that were attracted by the wide open frontiers in which they would estab- lish a society to their liking . They hoped that the religious tolerance and the willingness to absorb new immigrants would further their dream . From ...
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 |