" ... Utopias in American History gives readers a detailed sense of daily life in many different communal societies."--Back cover.

From the Shakers to the Branch Davidians, America's communal utopians have captured the popular imagination. Seventeen original essays here demonstrate the rele

An insightful look at the long tradition of communal societies in the United States from colonial times to the present, examining their ideological foundations,

From the time of its discovery, the new world was regarded by American settlers as a new Eden and a new Jerusalem. Although individual pioneers' visions of para

Utopian communities in American from 1680 to 1880, including the Shakers, New Harmony, Brook Farm, the Fourieristic phalanxes, and the Oneida communities, with