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1 online resource (517 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction: My Encounterwith American Communes; Part I: The Historical Sequence; 1. Communes in the History of the United States; 2. Ephrata and the First Communes in North America; 3. The Shakers: American Religious Communes; 4. Religious Immigrant Communes; 5. Robert Owen and the First Socialist Communes; 6. The Fourierist Communitarian Settlements; 7. Oneida: Commune with Complex Marriage; 8. Icaria: The Socialist Immigrant Communes; 9. Victor Considerant and the Fourierists at La Reunion |
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10. New Odessa: A Jewish Commune of the Am Olam Group11. The Kaweah Cooperative Colony in California; 12. Ruskin: The Communitarian Settlement in Tennessee, 1849; 13. Communitarian Settlements and Socialist Parties in Washington State; 14. The Christian Commonwealth in Georgia; 15. Llano de Rio: A Socialist Commune in California and Louisiana; 16. Sunrise and Anarchist Communities; 17. The Hutterites: A Bridge between Past and Present; Part II: A Collective Profile in a Comparative Approach; 18. Ideological Principles; 19. Social Activity and Management; 20. Education, Culture, and Rituals |
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21. The Family and Women's Status in the Communes22. Economic Assets and Liabilities; 23. Dualistic Relationships with the Outside World; 24. Dissolution of the Communes: Options or Inevitability?; 25. Epilogue; Appendix; Index of Names; Index of Communes |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Collective settlements -- United States -- History -- Case studies
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Religious communities -- United States -- History -- Case studies
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Collective settlements
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Religious communities
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United States
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Case studies
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Lash, H
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| ISBN |
9781351317870 |
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1351317873 |
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