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From the Shakers to the Branch Davidians, America's communal utopians have captured the popular imagination. Seventeen original essays here demonstrate the relevance of such groups to the mainstream of American social, religious, and economic life. The contributors examine the beliefs and pract...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Pitzer, Donald E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1997.
Temas:
Collective settlements > United States > History.
Communitarianism > United States.
Communal living > United States > History.
Communautés > États-Unis > Histoire.
Communautarisme > États-Unis.
Communes (Contre-culture) > États-Unis > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Communism & Socialism.
HISTORY > United States > General.
Collective settlements
Communal living
Communitarianism
Utopieën.
Gemeenschapszin.
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:From the Shakers to the Branch Davidians, America's communal utopians have captured the popular imagination. Seventeen original essays here demonstrate the relevance of such groups to the mainstream of American social, religious, and economic life. The contributors examine the beliefs and practices of the most prominent utopian communities founded before 1965, including the long-overlooked Catholic monastic communities and Jewish agricultural colonies. Also featured are the Ephrata Baptists, Moravians, Shakers, Harmonists, Hutterites, Inspirationists of Amana, Mormons, Owenites, Fourierists, I.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxi, 537 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 495-505) and index.
ISBN:9780807898970
080789897X
9781469604459
1469604450

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