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

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [1970]
©1970
Year of Publication:1970
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • PREFACE
  • CONTENTS
  • Chapter I. THE COMMUNITARIAN POINT OF VIEW
  • Chapter II. HOLY COMMONWEALTHS: THE COMMUNITIVE SECTS
  • Chapter III. TRANSMITTING THE COMMUNITARIAN TRADITION TO THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
  • Chapter IV. ROBERT OWEN'S NEW VIEW OF SOCIETY
  • Chapter V. THE RECEPTION OF OWENISM IN AMERICA
  • Chapter VI. EDUCATIONAL ALLIES OF COMMUNITARIANISM
  • Chapter VII. NEW HARMONY: A STUDY IN DISSONANCE
  • Chapter VIII. THE OWENITE LEGACY
  • Supplemental Essay I. PATENT-OFFICE MODELS OF THE GOOD SOCIETY: SOME RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SOCIAL REFORM AND WESTWARD EXPANSION
  • Supplemental Essay II. THE TRANSIT OF COMMUNITARIAN SOCIALISM TO AMERICA
  • APPENDIX: CHECKLIST OF COMMUNITARIAN EXPERIMENTS INITIATED IN THE UNITED STATES BEFORE 1860
  • BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY
  • INDEX