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American Community Radical Experiments in Intentional Living

Ferrara Mark S.
Innbundet / 2019 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781978808232
Publisert
2019-10-18
Utgiver
Vendor
Rutgers University Press
Vekt
458 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, U, P, 01, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Innbundet

Forfatter
Ferrara Mark S.

Biographical note

MARK S. FERRARA is associate professor of English at the State University of New York and author of several books, including Palace of Ashes (2015), Sacred Bliss (2016), and New Seeds of Profit (2019). He lives with his wife in an intentional community dedicated to sustainable living and experiential learning in upstate New York.
 

American Community Radical Experiments in Intentional Living

Ferrara Mark S.
Innbundet / 2019 / Engelsk
Ferrara Mark S.
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"Mark Ferrara’s tour of America’s intentional communities is an engrossing journey into the best of American idealism. Ferrara has focused on communities not widely known and enriches our knowledge of these experimental utopias."

- Timothy Miller, author of The Encyclopedic Guide to American Intentional Communities

"Mark Ferrara brings history alive with vivid descriptions of unique intentional communities, and their idealistic, and often quirky founders. He makes a compelling case that this particularly American impulse to build communities, in order to promote the values of equality, cooperation, and care for the earth, is both in response to the historical moment and also has helped to shape American society through bold innovation. A fascinating read!"<br />  

- Liz Walker, author of EcoVillage at Ithaca: Pioneering a Sustainable Culture

"Highly recommended."

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"Amid the isolation of new motherhood, I found solace in the communes of TikTok," vy Linnie Greene

Fast Company

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.
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American Community takes us inside forty of our nation’s most interesting experiments in collective living, from the colonial era to the present day. 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.
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Introduction: Community of Goods in the Colonies Ephrata • Zwaanendael • Bohemia Manor 1 Revolution and Social Reformation Zoar • Modern Times • New Harmony • Hopedale • Skaneateles • Bishop Hill • Icarian Communities 2 Sleeping Cars, Spiritualism, and Cooperatives Pullman • Brotherhood of the New Life • Rugby Colony • Belton Woman's Commonwealth • Mound Bayou • Kaweah Cooperative Commonwealth • Ruskin Colony 3 Theosophy, Depression, and the New Deal Point Loma • Llano del Rio • Arthurdale • Phoenix Homesteads • Aberdeen Gardens • Greendale • Greenhills • Greenbelt • Celo Community • Hospitality Houses • Sunrise Cooperative Farm 4 Hippies, Arcology, and Ecovillages Endicott-Johnson • La Honda • Drop City • Libre • Morning Star Ranch • Wheeler's Ranch • Chosen Family • The Farm • Womanshare Collective • Mulberry Family • Arcosanti • EcoVillage Ithaca Afterword: The Next Wave Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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"Mark Ferrara’s tour of America’s intentional communities is an engrossing journey into the best of American idealism. Ferrara has focused on communities not widely known and enriches our knowledge of these experimental utopias."

- Timothy Miller, author of The Encyclopedic Guide to American Intentional Communities

"Mark Ferrara brings history alive with vivid descriptions of unique intentional communities, and their idealistic, and often quirky founders. He makes a compelling case that this particularly American impulse to build communities, in order to promote the values of equality, cooperation, and care for the earth, is both in response to the historical moment and also has helped to shape American society through bold innovation. A fascinating read!"<br />  

- Liz Walker, author of EcoVillage at Ithaca: Pioneering a Sustainable Culture

"Highly recommended."

Choice

Se alle

"Amid the isolation of new motherhood, I found solace in the communes of TikTok," vy Linnie Greene

Fast Company

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.
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American Community takes us inside forty of our nation’s most interesting experiments in collective living, from the colonial era to the present day. 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.
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Introduction: Community of Goods in the Colonies Ephrata • Zwaanendael • Bohemia Manor 1 Revolution and Social Reformation Zoar • Modern Times • New Harmony • Hopedale • Skaneateles • Bishop Hill • Icarian Communities 2 Sleeping Cars, Spiritualism, and Cooperatives Pullman • Brotherhood of the New Life • Rugby Colony • Belton Woman's Commonwealth • Mound Bayou • Kaweah Cooperative Commonwealth • Ruskin Colony 3 Theosophy, Depression, and the New Deal Point Loma • Llano del Rio • Arthurdale • Phoenix Homesteads • Aberdeen Gardens • Greendale • Greenhills • Greenbelt • Celo Community • Hospitality Houses • Sunrise Cooperative Farm 4 Hippies, Arcology, and Ecovillages Endicott-Johnson • La Honda • Drop City • Libre • Morning Star Ranch • Wheeler's Ranch • Chosen Family • The Farm • Womanshare Collective • Mulberry Family • Arcosanti • EcoVillage Ithaca Afterword: The Next Wave Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781978808232
Publisert
2019-10-18
Utgiver
Vendor
Rutgers University Press
Vekt
458 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, U, P, 01, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
Ferrara Mark S.

Biographical note

MARK S. FERRARA is associate professor of English at the State University of New York and author of several books, including Palace of Ashes (2015), Sacred Bliss (2016), and New Seeds of Profit (2019). He lives with his wife in an intentional community dedicated to sustainable living and experiential learning in upstate New York.
 

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