Communal Utopias and the American Experience
Subtitle: Secular Communities, 1824-2000
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: February 28, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780313039133
Subjects: History / United States / General; United States - General; History; History: American
First sentence: America's earliest secular utopias were European in origin; or, as Arthur Bestor Jr. so aptly phrased it: "The communitarian idea came to fullest flower in the New World, but its seeds were brought from the old."