Utopias in American history
By: Jyotsna Sreenivasan.
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, Inc.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 417
ISBN-13: 9781598840520; 9781598840537
Subjects: Utopias -- United States -- History
Description: " ... Utopias in American History gives readers a detailed sense of daily life in many different communal societies."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Chronology; title: Amana colonies; title: Amish; title: Ananda colonies; title: Anarchism; title: Anti-slavery communities; title: Bellamy, Edward; title: Bible communism; title: Bishop Hill; title: Bohemia Manor; title: Brook Farm and Fourierist Phalanxes; title: Brotherhood of the New Life; title: Bruderhof; title: Buddhist communities; title: Burned-over district; title: Camphill movement; title: Capitalism; title: Catholic worker movement; title: Children and child-rearing; title: Rights movement; title: War; title: Cohousing; title: Cooperatives; title: Cults; title: Davidian and Branch Davidian movements; title: Ecovillages; title: Education; title: Ephrata cloister; title: Fairhope and single-tax communities; title: Family; title: The family/children of God; title: The farm; title: Fellowship for intentional community; title: Ferrer Colony (Stelton); title: George, Henry; title: Great depression; title: Gronlund, Laurence; title: Harmony Society; title: Hippies; title: Home colony; title: House of David movement; title: Hutterites; title: Icarian movement; title: Industrial revolution; title: International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Hare Krishna movement); title: Jerusalem/Society of Universal Friends; title: Jesus People USA; title: Jewish agricultural communities; title: Kaweah Cooperative Commonwealth; title: Keil Communities-Bethel and Aurora; title: Koinonia Farm/Koinonia Partners; title: Koreshan Unity; title: Leadership and decision making; title: Literary utopias; title: Llano del Rio and New Llano; title: Love family; title: Millennialism; title: Moravian movement; title: More, thomas; title: New deal communities; title: New Harmony and Owenite movement; title: Oneida Community; title: Orderville and Mormon communalism; title: Owen, Robert; title: Pacifism; title: Peace mission movement; title: Persecution; title: Point Loma and theosophical communities; title: Rainbow Family of Living Light; title: Rajneeshpuram; title: Renaissance Community/Brotherhood of the Spirit; title: Rugby; title: Ruskin; title: Shakers; title: Skinner, B. F.; title: Socialism; title: Society of the Woman in the Wilderness; title: Steiner, Rudolf; title: Synanon; title: Transcendentalism; title: Twin Oaks Community; title: Valley of the Swans; title: Women, status of; title: Zoar Society; title: Index; title: About the author.