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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... Women's Status in the Communes 411 22. Economic Assets and Liabilities 427 23. Dualistic Relationships with the Outside World 24. Dissolution of the Communes : Options or Inevitability ? 447 467 25. Epilogue Appendix Index of Names 481 ...
... women , followers of " free love , " and anarch- ists . A late additional wave of immigrants , the Hutterites , arrived in the United States in 1874. The Hutterians were an Anabaptist sect which had started out as a communal sect in ...
... women . About 100 men , women , and children lived in Bohemia Manor , which at its peak reached 125. Then , sixteen years after its establishment , it began to disintegrate ; private farms existed side by side with the commune . Members ...
... Woman in the Wilderness because of their isolation while expecting the kingdom of heaven . It was adopted from the Revelation to John ( chap . 12 / G ) ( i.e. the apocalypse about the woman who was about to bear a male child " who is to ...
... Woman of the Wilderness was as high as ever . In 1720 there were still members of the commune who lived in the tabernacle . Several stayed until 1741 , when the estate and all on it were sold and the com- munity was finally dissolved ...
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 |