| Description |
246 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
The immigrants arrive -- Mother Ann and the universal friend -- Shaker societies -- Revolutions, revivals, and a dream -- Rappites and Zoarites -- New harmony -- Excitements and institutions -- Fourier and Fourierism -- Racial and religious communism -- Oneida -- Icaria -- Utopia in decline -- Was it worth while? -- Epilogue-The idea persists |
| Summary |
Utopian communities in American from 1680 to 1880, including the Shakers, New Harmony, Brook Farm, the Fourieristic phalanxes, and the Oneida communities, with accounts of the constitutions, revelations, beliefs, tenets, customs dictated by religious beliefs or social principle, and more |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 233-239 |
| Subject |
Collective settlements -- United States.
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Communal living.
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Communism.
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Utopias -- United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Utopian fiction.
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| LC no. |
65026016 |
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