America's Communal Utopias

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"Brings into sharp focus a hitherto ill-mapped stretch of American social-history terrain. "From The Foreword By Paul Boyer

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Foreword	p. ix
Notes	p. xiii
Preface	p. xv
Introduction	p. 3
Communitarian Societies in Colonial America	p. 14
The Shakers of Mother Ann Lee	p. 37
George Rapp's Harmony Society	p. 57
The New Moral World of Robert Owen and New Harmony	p. 88
Heart and Mind: Communal Life and Values among the Mormons	p. 135
Brook Farm and the Fourierist Phalanxes: Immediatism, Gradualism, and American Utopian Socialism	p. 159
The Community of True Inspiration from Germany to the Amana Colonies	p. 181
Religious Orders and Monastic Communalism in America	p. 204
Free Love and Community: John Humphrey Noyes and the Oneida Perfectionists	p. 253
An American Elysium the Icarian Communities	p. 279
Eric Jansson and the Bishop Hill Colony	p. 297
Living in the Ark: Four Centuries of Hutterite Faith and Community	p. 319
American Jewish Agricultural Colonies	p. 352
Introduction	p. 352
Conclusions	p. 366
Notes	p. 369
Notes	p. 373
Cyrus Reed Teed and the Koreshan Unity	p. 375
The Theosophical Communities and Their Ideal of Universal Brotherhood	p. 396
California's Socialist Utopias	p. 419
Father Divine and the Peace Mission	p. 432
Compiled by Donald E. Pitzer Appendix: America's Communal Utopias Founded by 1965	p. 449
Bibliographical Essay	p. 495
Notes	p. 500
Contributors	p. 507
Index	p. 511
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