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Communal utopias and the American experience : secular communities, 1824-2000 /
This important study begins with America's first secular utopia at New Harmony in 1824 and traces successive utopian experiments in the United States through the following centuries. For the first time, readers will come to realize that American communalism is not a disjointed, erratic, almost...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Westport, Conn. :
Praeger Publishers,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This important study begins with America's first secular utopia at New Harmony in 1824 and traces successive utopian experiments in the United States through the following centuries. For the first time, readers will come to realize that American communalism is not a disjointed, erratic, almost ephemeral part of our past, but has been an on-going, essential part of American history. We have a communal utopian motif that sets the history of the United States apart from any other nation. The utopian communal story is just one other dimension of the Puritan concept that America was a city upon a h. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 170 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0313039135 9780313039133 9780275975531 0275975533 1282407791 9781282407794 9786612407796 6612407794 |