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Utopian Communities of Illinois: Heaven on the Prairie

Author : Randall J. Soland
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467137227
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Utopian Communities of Illinois: Heaven on the Prairie written by Randall J. Soland and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Prairie State became a crucial testing ground for the grand American thought experiment on how a society should be constructed. Between 1839 and 1901, six different utopian communities chose Illinois as the laboratory and sanctuary to elevate their ideals into reality. The Mormons and the Icarians selected Nauvoo. The Janssonists picked Bishop Hill. The Fourierists settled on the north edge of Loami. The employees of the Pullman Railroad Car Company naturally resided in Pullman, and the Dowietes put down roots in Zion. Three were religious and the others secular. All possessed charismatic leaders and dramatic stories that drew attention from across the globe. Randy Soland examines the relationship between these havens and their legacies.

Utopian Communities in Illinois

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (238 download)

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Download or read book Utopian Communities in Illinois written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Utopian Communities of Illinois

Author : Randall J. Soland
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439661669
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Utopian Communities of Illinois written by Randall J. Soland and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Prairie State became a crucial testing ground for the grand American thought experiment on how a society should be constructed. Between 1839 and 1901, six different utopian communities chose Illinois as the laboratory and sanctuary to elevate their ideals into reality. The Mormons and the Icarians selected Nauvoo. The Janssonists picked Bishop Hill. The Fourierists settled on the north edge of Loami. The employees of the Pullman Railroad Car Company naturally resided in Pullman, and the Dowietes put down roots in Zion. Three were religious and the others secular. All possessed charismatic leaders and dramatic stories that drew attention from across the globe. Randy Soland examines the relationship between these havens and their legacies.

Heavens on Earth

Author : Mark Holloway
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486215938
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book Heavens on Earth written by Mark Holloway and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1966-01-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utopian communities in American from 1680 to 1880, including the Shakers, New Harmony, Brook Farm, the Fourieristic phalanxes, and the Oneida communities, with accounts of the constitutions, revelations, beliefs, tenets, customs dictated by religious beliefs or social principle, and more.

Utopian Spaces

Author : Sarah Jaggi Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Utopian Spaces written by Sarah Jaggi Lee and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nauvoo, Illinois was the setting for two important social experiments in the middle of the nineteenth century. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the Mormons, made this city their headquarters of their rapidly expanding church from 1838 until 1846. Only three years after the departure of the Mormons, a group of Frechmen calling themselves Icarians came to the same spot to realize a system of communal living and brotherhood that lasted in Nauvoo until 1856. While several studies have been devoted to these groups, as yet none have combined a study of the two communities who shared the same space. This study focuses on the physical communities as envisioned by their leaders and as constructed and inhabited by the members of each group. In "reading" the city each community constructed at Nauvoo, we can understand their unique utopian agendas and individual utopian vision. I offer one perspective, grounded in an interpretation of the cultural landscape of Nauvoo, which examines only a few of the numerous aspects of leadership and authority, gender and conflict. This study seeks to compare the two communities at Nauvoo in ways that will not only elucidate their agendas and experiences, but will help shed light on the nature and experiences of utopian communities in general.

Heartland Utopias

Author : Robert P. Sutton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780875804019
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Heartland Utopias written by Robert P. Sutton and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a regional study of 19th century utopian movements, focusing on the Old Northwest Territory, the Dakotas, and Missouri, a region surpassed only by New England in the number of utopian settlements. It ranges from the first Shaker village near Dayton, Ohio, built in 1807, to the 1903 incorporation and ensuing stormy history of The House of David in Benton Harbor, Michigan. During these years, charismatic individuals built three different kinds of utopias : perfectionist, whose members thought they could achieve impeccancy almost immediately by living communally; cooperative, whose members believed that communalism would improve the moral and economic condition of its members and at the same time be the alternative to exploitative capitalism; and social and communist, whose members believed that democracy and equality could never be achieved without living in an ?association,? as with the socialists, or in a ?community of good,? as with the Icarians.

Experimental Americans

Author : George L. Hicks
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252026614
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Experimental Americans written by George L. Hicks and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Founded in 1937 by Arthur Morgan, first chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority, Celo (pronounced see-lo) established its own rules of land tenure and taxation, conducted its internal business by consensus and did not require its members to accept any particular ideology or religious creed. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Celo and among its local neighbors, consultation of Celo's documentary records, and interviews with ex-members, Hicks traces the Community's ups and downs. Attacked for its opposition to World War II, Celo was revived by pacifists released from prisons and Civilian Public Service camps after the war; debilitated in the 1950s by bitter feuds with ex-members, it was buoyed up in the 1960s by the radical enthusiasm of new currents in the nation."--BOOK JACKET.

Ideology and Change in an American Utopian Community

Author : George L. Hicks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book Ideology and Change in an American Utopian Community written by George L. Hicks and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ideology and Change in an American Utopian Community

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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Ideology and Change in an American Utopian Community written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Utopian Episodes

Author : Seymour R. Kesten
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815625933
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (259 download)

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Download or read book Utopian Episodes written by Seymour R. Kesten and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Decades before the communes of the sixties, nineteenth-century radicals set up isolated colonies where they hoped to insulate themselves from a corrupt mainstream America. Throughout the country experimental utopian settlements promised to fulfill the lives of ordinary citizens through abundance, equality, and free education. Utopian Episodes tells why these early, freethinking rebels could never fully achieve their goals, but how their legacy has become an integral part of today's movement for social reform." "Seymour Kesten focuses on three of the most renowned colonies: New-Harmony, Indiana; Brook Farm, Massachusetts; and Icarian Communities in Iowa and Illinois. Many more experimental groups are also discussed, including Alphadelphia in Michigan, Fruitlands and Hopedale in Massachusetts, Ohio Phalanx, and La Reunion (now Dallas, Texas)." "Unlike other studies on similar groups, Kesten's book gives us a unique insider's view into the day-to-day lives of these American radicals and thus provides a study of the human spirit. He lets us see utopian life through the eyes of those who knew it firsthand. A look at individuals' activities, work, dress, and food brings us into the realm of their souls. He draws on rare memoirs and early accounts (some published here for the first time) by well-known participants, including A. Bronson Alcott, Horace Greeley, and George Ripley, as well as relatively unknown colonists, such as Albert Brisbane, John Dwight, Elijah Grant, and Amelia Russell." "The book spans the rebirth of an intellectual movement and explores the newspapers, literature, poetry, and music of its social consciousness. Education for the masses was the essence of the utopian process, for it alone, they believed, would regenerate a civic-minded, compassionate society. Ultimately, they would eradicate evil, which was the goal of every colony."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Communal Utopias and the American Experience

Author : Robert P. Sutton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313039135
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Communal Utopias and the American Experience written by Robert P. Sutton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-02-28 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the following centuries. For the first time, readers will come to realize that American communalism is not a disjointed, erratic, almost ephemeral part of our past, but has been an on-going, essential part of American history. We have a communal utopian motif that sets the history of the United States apart from any other nation. The utopian communal story is just one other dimension of the Puritan concept that America was a city upon a hill, a beacon light to all the world where the perfect society could be built and could flourish. After discussing New Harmony and other Owenite communities, the author examines nine Fourierist utopias that were built before the Civil War. Next, he analyzes the five Icarian colonies that, collectively, were the longest-lived, non-religious communal experiments in American history. Then, discussion moves to the seven Gilded Age socialist cooperatives, followed by the utopian communities created during President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. Finally, Sutton turns to the hippie colonies and intentional communities of the last half of the 20th century.

Cities of Inspiration

Author : John Louis Gann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Cities of Inspiration written by John Louis Gann and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Zion City, Illinois

Author : Carol Sonnenschein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (249 download)

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Download or read book Zion City, Illinois written by Carol Sonnenschein and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Zion City, Illinois

Author : Philip L. Cook
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Zion City, Illinois written by Philip L. Cook and published by . This book was released on 1996-05 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a treatment of Zion City, an Illinois Christian communal society, and its founder, John Alexander Dowie, on the eve of its centennial.

Historic Bishop Hill, Illinois

Author : Mary A. Vance
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (811 download)

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Download or read book Historic Bishop Hill, Illinois written by Mary A. Vance and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

America's Communal Utopias

Author : Donald E. Pitzer
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 080789897X
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book America's Communal Utopias written by Donald E. Pitzer and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-01-20 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Shakers to the Branch Davidians, America's communal utopians have captured the popular imagination. Seventeen original essays here demonstrate the relevance of such groups to the mainstream of American social, religious, and economic life. The contributors examine the beliefs and practices of the most prominent utopian communities founded before 1965, including the long-overlooked Catholic monastic communities and Jewish agricultural colonies. Also featured are the Ephrata Baptists, Moravians, Shakers, Harmonists, Hutterites, Inspirationists of Amana, Mormons, Owenites, Fourierists, Icarians, Janssonists, Theosophists, Cyrus Teed's Koreshans, and Father Divine's Peace Mission. Based on a new conceptual framework known as developmental communalism, the book examines these utopian movements throughout the course of their development--before, during, and after their communal period. Each chapter includes a brief chronology, giving basic information about the group discussed. An appendix presents the most complete list of American utopian communities ever published. The contributors are Jonathan G. Andelson, Karl J. R. Arndt, Pearl W. Bartelt, Priscilla J. Brewer, Donald F. Durnbaugh, Lawrence Foster, Carl J. Guarneri, Robert V. Hine, Gertrude E. Huntington, James E. Landing, Dean L. May, Lawrence J. McCrank, J. Gordon Melton, Donald E. Pitzer, Robert P. Sutton, Jon Wagner, and Robert S. Weisbrot.

A Socialist Utopia in the New South

Author : William Fitzhugh Brundage
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252065484
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (654 download)

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Download or read book A Socialist Utopia in the New South written by William Fitzhugh Brundage and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A definitive account of the Ruskin colonies and of their place in the larger social radical strivings of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. . . . Well written and solidly researched, it gives us an understanding of an important quest for heaven on earth." -- Edward K. Spann, author of Brotherly Tomorrows: Movements for a Cooperative Society in America, 1820-1920 This first book-length study of the Ruskin colonies shows how several hundred utopian socialists gathered as a cooperative community in Tennessee and Georgia in the late nineteenth century. The communitarians' noble but fatally flawed act of social endeavor revealed the courage and desperation they felt as they searched for alternatives to the chaotic and competitive individualism of the age of robber barons and for a viable model for a just and humane society at a time of profound uncertainty about public life in the United States.