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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...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Sutton, Robert P.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2004.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (x, 170 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0313039135
9780313039133
9780275975531
0275975533
1282407791
9781282407794
9786612407796
6612407794