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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jayme A Sokolow |
| ISBN: | 9780773447851 0773447857 |
| OCLC Number: | 317928589 |
| Description: | v, 321 p., 17 p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | A vanished world -- The Phalanx bubble -- Fourierism comes to New Jersey -- The creation of a Fourierist environment -- The political economy of the Phalanx -- Phalanx women -- Demographic and economic problems -- Decline and dissolution -- Conclusion : listening to the dead at the North American Phalanx. |
| Responsibility: | Jayme Sokolow ; with a foreword by Abigail Mellen. |
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"To better illuminate the circumstances of the NAP, Sokolow has placed his account in the context of studies on the many contemporaneous religious and secular planned communities, elaborating on the solutions others found to similar problem and issues." - Prof. Abigail Mellen Lehman College "Sokolow has given identity to the individual members of the Phalanx by introducing us to those few who left written accounts of their life or who were written about by visitors. He has also pieced together their daily routines by reviewing the surviving Association records, interviewing descendants and even learning what archaeological evidence has been found on site." - Lee Ellen Griffith, Director Monmouth Historical Association" Read more...
