America's Utopian Experiments

by Berry, Brian Joe Lobley

• ISBN13: 9780874515909
• ISBN10: 0874515904
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-11-01
• Publisher: Dartmouth College

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
About the Series
Introduction
The Spatial Pattern and the Cultural Matrix	p. 1
Contrapuntal Long-Wave Rhythms	p. 16
Shakerdom	p. 27
German Separatists Adjust: The Rappites, Zoarites, and Amana Colonists	p. 41
The Owenite Experiments: Secular Socialism Arrives	p. 56
Mormonism: From the Burned-Over District to the Deseret Kingdom	p. 64
The Fourierist Outbreak	p. 83
Oneida's Perfectionists and the New England Transcendentalists	p. 93
Etienne Cabet's French Communard Icarians	p. 107
The Hutterites	p. 116
Jewish Agricultural Resettlement	p. 129
Religious Sectarianism, the Social Gospel, and Theosophy	p. 138
Secular Alternatives: From Free Love and Vegetarianism to the Cooperative Commonwealth	p. 152
An Epidemic of Socialism?	p. 162
Henry George and the Single Tax	p. 173
The State Takes Over: New Deal Communities	p. 178
Alongside the New Deal: Catholic and Black American Movements	p. 198
Pathways to Self-Realization: From Protest Movements to the New Age Paradigm	p. 214
A Capitalist-Socialist Dialectic	p. 228
The Wave of the 1990s	p. 240
Notes	p. 247
Literature Consulted	p. 255
Index	p. 267
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