Two Hundred Years of American Communes - Couverture rigide

Oved, Yaacov

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0887381138 ISBN 13 : 9780887381133

Editeur : Transaction Publishers, 1987

Synopsis

The United States is the only modern nation in which communes have continuously existed for the past two hundred years. This definitive history of communes in America examines the major factors that have supported the existence and growth of communes throughout American history. The most impressive survey of the communal experience since the works of Noyes and Nordhoff, it is informed by a deep respect for the human subjects and organizational forms of American communes. The findings in the analytical chapters are of considerably theoretical import beyond the historical narrative.Oved details the founding, growth, development, and sometimes failure of alternative societies from 1735 to 1939: Icaria, Ephrata, Oneida, Shaker, religious, secular, and socialist communes. Extensive reference material cited will assure this work a special place in the archives of the literature on communes.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Yaacov Oved has been a member of Kibbutz Palmachim ever since its establishment in 1949. He is professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University's department of history and a research fellow of Yad Tabenkin. He has engaged in the research of communes throughout the world and has published books and articles on this subject in Hebrew, English, and Spanish. He was one of the founders of the International Communal Studies Association (ICSA) in 1985 and servedas its chairman until 2004.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Transaction Publishers
• Date d'édition: 1987
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0887381138
• ISBN 13: 9780887381133
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 516
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible