Biographical sketches of 140 personalities, summaries of 59 communes, and a directory of communal settlements from the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. Each entry is approximately one page in length and concludes with a brief bibliography of works by and about the subject. Features include an annotated list of communal and utopian societies 1787-1919, a bibliographical essay on communal history in America, and a select bibliography. Encyclopedia of American Communes, 1663-1963. An alphabetical encyclopedia of 516 communal experiments.
Some entries are a few pages in length.
Some entries reference at least one source on the topic. Biographical Sources American National Biography . Oxford University Press, 1999. Conceived as a successor to the Dictionary of American Biography . A bibliography of primary and secondary sources appears at the end of each article.