Communes in America, 1975-2000 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Communes in America, 1975-2000 write by Timothy Miller. This book was released on 2019-03-26. Communes in America, 1975-2000 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Communes in America: 1975–2000 is the final volume in Miller’s trilogy on the history of American intentional communities. Providing a comprehensive survey of communities during the last quarter of the twentieth century, Miller offers a detailed study of their character, scope, and evolution. Between 1975 and 2000, the American communal experience evolved dramatically in response to social and environmental challenges that confronted American society as a whole. Long-accepted social norms and institutions—family, religion, medicine, and politics—were questioned as the divorce rate increased, interest in spiritual teachings from Asia grew, and alternative medicine gained ground. Cohousing flourished as a response to an increasing sense of alienation and a need to balance community and private lives. At the same time, Americans became increasingly concerned with environmental protection and preservation of our limited resources. In the face of these social changes, communal living flourished as people sought out communities of like-minded individuals to pursue a higher purpose. Organized topically, each chapter in the volume provides basic information about various types of communities and detailed examples of each type, from ecovillages and radical Christian communities to pagan communes and cohousing experiments. Miller also takes a step back to look at the prevalence of communal living in American life over the twentieth century. Based on exhaustive research, Miller’s final volume provides an indispensable survey and guide to understanding utopianism’s enduring presence in American culture.
The 60s Communes
The 60s Communes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The 60s Communes write by Timothy Miller. This book was released on 2015-02-01. The 60s Communes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The greatest wave of communal living in American history crested in the tumultuous 1960s era including the early 1970s. To the fascination and amusement of more decorous citizens, hundreds of thousands of mostly young dreamers set out to build a new culture apart from the established society. Widely believed by the larger public to be sinks of drug-ridden sexual immorality, the communes both intrigued and repelled the American people. The intentional communities of the 1960s era were far more diverse than the stereotype of the hippie commune would suggest. A great many of them were religious in basis, stressing spiritual seeking and disciplined lifestyles. Others were founded on secular visions of a better society. Hundreds of them became so stable that they survive today. This book surveys the broad sweep of this great social yearning from the first portents of a new type of communitarianism in the early 1960s through the waning of the movement in the mid-1970s. Based on more than five hundred interviews conducted for the 60s Communes Project, among other sources, it preserves a colorful and vigorous episode in American history. The book includes an extensive directory of active and non-active communes, complete with dates of origin and dissolution.
New York Recentered
New York Recentered - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New York Recentered write by Kara Murphy Schlichting. This book was released on 2019-04-23. New York Recentered available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The history of New York City’s urban development often centers on titanic municipal figures like Robert Moses and on prominent inner Manhattan sites like Central Park. New York Recentered boldly shifts the focus to the city’s geographic edges—the coastlines and waterways—and to the small-time unelected locals who quietly shaped the modern city. Kara Murphy Schlichting details how the vernacular planning done by small businessmen and real estate operators, performed independently of large scale governmental efforts, refigured marginal locales like Flushing Meadows and the shores of Long Island Sound and the East River in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The result is a synthesis of planning history, environmental history, and urban history that recasts the story of New York as we know it.
The Modern Utopian
The Modern Utopian - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Modern Utopian write by Richard Fairfield. This book was released on 2011-05-24. The Modern Utopian available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Portraits of several 70s communes and experimental groups and the trend of intentional communities of today
The Quest for Utopia in Twentieth-century America
The Quest for Utopia in Twentieth-century America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Quest for Utopia in Twentieth-century America write by Timothy Miller. This book was released on 1998. The Quest for Utopia in Twentieth-century America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
