Backwoods Utopias : The Sectarian Origins and the Owenite Phase of Communitarian Socialism in America, 1663-1829 / Arthur Bestor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bestor, Arthur, author.

Series:

Pennsylvania paperbacks ; 1004.

Pennsylvania paperback ; 1004

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collective settlements--United States.

Collective settlements.

Communism--United States.

Communism.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 pages)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1970]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Arthur Bestor shows the connection between the ""holy commonwealths"" of the colonial period and the nonsectarian experiments of the nineteenth century. He examines in particular detail Robert Owen's ideals and problems in creating New Harmony.

Contents:

Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Preface; Contents; I The Communitarian Point of View; II Holy Commonwealths: The Communitive Sects; III Transmitting The Communitarian Tradition to the Nineteenth Century; IV Robert Owen's New View of Society; V The Reception of Owenism in America; VI Educational Allies of Communitarianism; VII New Harmony: A Study in Dissonance; VIII The Owenite Legacy; Supplemental Essays:; I Patent-Office Models of the Good Society: Some Relationships Between Social Reform and Westward Expansion (1953); II The Transit of Communitarian Socialism to America (1957).

Appendix: Checklist of Communitarian Experiments Initiated in the United States Before 1860Bibliographical Essay (with addenda, 1949-1969); Index.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Apr 2019)

ISBN:

9781512809640

1512809640

OCLC:

1100449455