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The North American Phalanx (1843-1855) : a nineteenth-century utopian community
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The North American Phalanx (1843-1855) : a nineteenth-century utopian community

Author: Jayme A Sokolow
Publisher: Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : English
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Presents a study of the North American Phalanx, one of the most important utopian communities in antebellum America. This book offers a revealing example of the antebellum reform impulse's restless  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
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 Read more...

 
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