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Heavens on earth; utopian communities in America, 1680-1880
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks HX 653 .H66 1966
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holloway, Mark, 1917-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Collective settlements--United States.
- Collective settlements.
- Utopias--United States.
- Utopias.
- Physical Description:
- 246 p. illus., map, ports. 22 cm.
- Edition:
- 2d ed. [rev.].
- Place of Publication:
- New York, Dover Publications [1966]
- Summary:
- Utopian communities in American from 1680 to 1880, in- cluding the Shakers, New Harmony, Brook Farm, the Fourieristic phalanxes, and the Oneida communities, with accounts of the constitutions, revelations, beliefs, tenets, customs dictated by religious beliefs or social principle, and more.
- Contents:
- The immigrants arrive
- Mother Ann and the universal friend
- Shaker societies
- Revolutions, revivals, and a dream
- Rappites and Zoarites
- New harmony
- Excitements and institutions
- Fourier and Fourierism
- Racial and religious communism
- Oneida
- Icaria
- Utopia in decline
- Was it worth while?
- Epilogue-The idea persists.
- Notes:
- Bibliography: p. 233-239.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Holloway, Mark, 1917- Heavens on earth.
- OCLC:
- 266074
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