Backwoods Utopias: The Sectarian Origins and the Owenite Phase of Communitarian Socialism in America, 1663-1829
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The new society that the world awaited might yet be born in the humble guise of a backwoods village. This was the belief shared by the many groups which moved into the American frontier to create experimental communities--communities which they hoped would be models for revolutionary changes in religion, politics, economics, and education in American society. For, as James Madison wrote, the American Republic was "useful in proving things before...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0812210042
ISBN13:9780812210040
Release Date:January 1971
Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
Length:342 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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