This important study begins with America's first secular utopia at New Harmony in 1824 and traces successive utopian experiments in the United States through th

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

American communalism is not a disjointed, erratic, almost ephemeral part of our past, but an on-going, essential part of American history. This important study

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American Community takes us inside forty of our nation's most interesting experiments in collective living, from the colonial era to the present day. By shining