TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ferrara,Mark S.
TI  - American Community: Radical Experiments in Intentional Living 
SN  - 9781978808263
AV  - HX653 .F47 2020
U1  - 307.770973 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ : 
PB  - Rutgers University Press, 
KW  - Collective settlements
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Communal living
KW  - Utopias
KW  - HISTORY / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - American Dream, American, Americans, community, communities, intentional communities, colonial era, Icarian communities, cooperative living, utopia, Acrosanti, Paolo Soleri, capitalism, economics, harmony, equality, social justice, communitarianism, socialism, American experience, utopian ideas, intentional living, democratic socialism, millennials, history, sociology, sustainability, homegrown socialism, American history, leadership, community building, communalism, religious studies, co-housing, ecovillage
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Introduction: Community of Goods in the Colonies --; 1 Revolution and Social Reformation --; 2 Sleeping Cars, Spiritualism, and Cooperatives --; 3 Theosophy, Depression, and the New Deal --; 4 Hippies, Arcology, and Ecovillages --; Afterword: The Next Wave --; Acknowledgments --; NOTES --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX --; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; restricted access
N2  - Mainstream notions of the “American Dream” usually revolve around the ownership of private property, a house of one’s own. Yet for the past 400 years, a large number of Americans have dared to dream bigger and bolder, choosing to live in intentional communities that pooled resources, and they worked to ensure the well-being of all their members. American Community takes us inside forty of the most interesting intentional communities in the nation’s history, from the colonial era to the present day. You will learn about such little-known experiments in cooperative living as the Icarian communities, which took the utopian ideas expounded in a 1840 French novel and put them into practice, ultimately spreading to five states over fifty years. Plus, it covers more recent communities such as Arizona’s Arcosanti, designed by architect Paolo Soleri as a model for ecologically sustainable living. In this provocative and engaging book, Mark Ferrara guides readers through an array of intentional communities that boldly challenged capitalist economic arrangements in order to attain ideals of harmony, equality, and social justice. By shining a light on these forgotten histories, it shows that far from being foreign concepts, communitarianism and socialism have always been vital parts of the American experience
UR  - https://doi.org/10.36019/9781978808263
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781978808263
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781978808263/original
ER  -