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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aFerrara, Mark S.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aAmerican Community :
_bRadical Experiments in Intentional Living /
_cMark S. Ferrara.
264 1 _aNew Brunswick, NJ :
_bRutgers University Press,
_c[2019]
264 4 _c©2020
300 _a1 online resource (236 p.) :
_b38 color photographs
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tIntroduction: Community of Goods in the Colonies --
_t1 Revolution and Social Reformation --
_t2 Sleeping Cars, Spiritualism, and Cooperatives --
_t3 Theosophy, Depression, and the New Deal --
_t4 Hippies, Arcology, and Ecovillages --
_tAfterword: The Next Wave --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tNOTES --
_tBIBLIOGRAPHY --
_tINDEX --
_tABOUT THE AUTHOR
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aMainstream 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.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023)
650 0 _aCollective settlements
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aCommunal living
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aUtopias
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 7 _aHISTORY / General.
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653 _aAmerican 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.
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856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.36019/9781978808263
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781978808263
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