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Man and mission : E.B. Gaston and the origins of the Fairhope Single Tax Colony / by Paul M. Gaston.
LIBRA HX656.F35 G37 1993
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gaston, Paul M., 1928-2019.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fairhope Single Tax Corporation--History.
- Fairhope Single Tax Corporation.
- Utopian socialism--Alabama--Fairhope--History.
- Utopian socialism.
- Gaston, Ernest B.
- Socialists--United States--Biography.
- Socialists.
- History.
- United States.
- Alabama--Fairhope.
- Fairhope (Ala.)--History.
- Fairhope (Ala.).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 161 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Montgomery, Ala. : Black Belt Press, [1993]
- Summary:
- A distinguished Southern historian and the grandson of the founder of one of America's most remarkable communities traces the roots and philosophical underpinnings of Fairhope, Alabama. The town began as a planned utopian community in 1895, where the settlers established a system of "cooperative individualism" wherein "virtually all property except land was privately owned".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.
- Storage copy inscribed by the author to Lucy and Sheldon Hackney.
- ISBN:
- 1881320103
- OCLC:
- 27976976
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