Communes in America
The Place Just Right
Horowitz, Elinor Lander
Publisher: J.B. Lippincott, New York, USA
Year Published: 1972
Pages: 158pp ISBN: 0-397-31437
Library of Congress Number: HX654.H58 Dewey: 335.02
Resource Type: Book
Cx Number: CX6221
Traces the history of collective settlements in the United States and compares their organization and purpose with the communes of today.
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Table of Contents
1. All Things Common
2. Literary Utopias
3. The Gift to be Simple: The Shakers and Other Early Communitarians
4. On the Banks of the Wabash: George Rapp and His Followers
5. Utopia Revisited: Robert Owen at New Harmony
6. The Noblest Dream: Brook Farm
7. Love One Another: The Oneida Community
8. A Spiritualist and a Revolutionary: Brocton and Icaria
9. The Song Goes On: The Contemporary Scene
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