Communal Societies (6 results)
Published by Evansville: Indiana State U Div. Social Science, 1983., 1983
- Softcover
Seller: Truman Price & Suzanne Price / oldchildrensbooks, Monmouth, OR, U.S.A.Truman Price & Suzanne Price / oldchildrensbooks
Contact seller3-star sellerSoft cover. Very Good: solid, straight, unmarked, light exterior soil. Trade paperback, vi, 187 pp. Articles and reviews: shakers, Utopians, anarchy, Amish, etc. . .
Communal Societies: Journal of the National Historic Communal Societies Association, Volume 5. Five.
Published by Evansville: Indiana State U Div. Social Science, 1985., 1985
- Softcover
Seller: Truman Price & Suzanne Price / oldchildrensbooks, Monmouth, OR, U.S.A.Truman Price & Suzanne Price / oldchildrensbooks
Contact seller3-star sellerSoft cover. Very Good: transverse wrinkle near top of spine, else clean, straight & unmarked. Trade paperback, viii, 218 [1] pp. Articles and reviews: Kibbutz, Owenism, Anarchist Collectives in Spain, Dress in Utopian communities, etc. . .
Communal Societies: Journal of the National Historic Communal Societies Association, Volume 4. Four.
Published by Evansville: Indiana State U Div. Social Science, 1984., 1984
- Softcover
Seller: Truman Price & Suzanne Price / oldchildrensbooks, Monmouth, OR, U.S.A.Truman Price & Suzanne Price / oldchildrensbooks
Contact seller3-star sellerSoft cover. Very Good: solid, straight; 5 titles circled in the table of contents, else unmarked; light exterior soil. Trade paperback, viii, 265 pp. Articles and reviews: Morning Star Ranch, Ananda, Fanny Wright, Marie Fratageot, Utopians, etc. . .
Published by National Historic Communal Societies Association, 1983
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: James Cummings, Bookseller, Signal Mountain, TN, U.S.A.James Cummings, Bookseller
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 5 vols. Volumes 3 thru 7.
Published by Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1972
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Arches Bookhouse, Portland, OR, U.S.A.Arches Bookhouse
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Add to basketHardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: VERY GOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Revised Edition. Second and substantially revised and expanded edition. 713pp. Sewn binding in orange cloth, gilt spine lettering. Ex-library; exceedingly clean and sharp with sound binding and no evidence of use; DJ with a tape repair to fore head an…d small stains to spine. Shipped professionally in a box. Long out of print and scarce in trade. 'When George Rapp died in 1847, the capitalistic press of Pittsburgh lauded him as the 'greatest communist of his age.' This was the year that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were commissioned to write the Communist Manifesto. At the time of his death Rapp could look back upon three American communities his Society had built and which had attracted the admiration of the entire Western world, for George Rapp was the founder of the most successful of all communist groups in America's history-one which provided social and spiritual security, with prenatal care and post-mortem burial, more than a century before the New Deal. Before Brook Farm (1841) and Alcott's Fruitlands (1843) began, Rapp's Harmony Society had been flourishing for almost forty years, and the enormous success of the Society, which believed itself to be the embodiment of the Sunwoman of the Apocalypse, actually inspired both, for Rapp's Society was not just another German-American musical society, but a solid communist establishment that endured in Pennsylvania and Indiana for a full century on a very simple agreement consisting of six points. This agreement three times was upheld by the United States Supreme Court. If to Karl Marx and his followers religion was the opium of the people, to George Rapp it was the essence of life. Yet one looks in vain in American high school or college textbooks for an account of America's own greatest com-munist. That this was not always so is proved by F. Cuming's Sketches of a Tour to the Western Country, published in 1810, John Melish's Travels in the United States of America in the Years 1806-1811, and George Flower's Letters from Lexington and the Illinois, published in London in 1819 and describing Rapp's second town as 'Harmony, that wonder of the West.' Lord Byron, Goethe, Lenau, Kipling, and most western travelers knew better, and have written about George Rapp's great achievements. The present volume is an extensive revision, with new illustrations, of the first edition, in which for the first time a history of the Harmony Society is presented based on a study of the original records of the Society in this country and abroad. A whole new chapter has been added about the schismatic group under Count Leon and the stay of the German poet Lenau with the Harmony Society in 1832, which made a lifelong impression on him and his work.' (Publisher's blurb).
We Appeal To The Public. [A Broadside Concerning the DoukhoborFreedomite Conflict.]
[Canada Religious History Communal Societies] Soukoreff, George S.; Verigin, John J.
Published by Hall Printing Co, Trail, British Columbia, 1947
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Seller: Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB, Marlboro, VT, U.S.A.Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerThe Doukhobors are a Spiritual Christian group that originated in the Russian Empire around the late eighteenth century. Persecuted for their pacifism and rejection of the Orthodox Church, the Doukhobors were first removed to present-day Ukraine then the Transcaucasus, with some of their leadership exiled to Siberia. In the late… nineteenth century, they were allowed to emigrate, and with the help of both Quakers and the Christian anarchist Tolstoyanswhose beliefs largely accorded with the Doukhobors'many ended up in western and central Canada. In Canada, the dissident group Sons of Freedom (or Freedomites, Svobodniki) formed out of the Doukhobors; their opposition to assimilation and government interference was more extreme than their parent group, and they were known for eschewing cooked food, the use of animal labor, and clothing.[1] The Freedomites became increasingly violent in their protests of the modern world, particularly making use of arson and bombings, leading the vehemently pacifist Doukhoborswho were often their victimsto disavow the group. Offered here is a broadside produced by the Doukhobors in British Columbia appealing to the Canadian government for help in apprehending and controlling the radicals, ending the Doukhobor's "dreadful existence under constant fear." The broadside reproduces the correspondence between the Union of Doukhobors of Canada and various provincial and federal officials, and especially emphasizes that, contrary to popular belief, the Doukhobors had been open and cooperative with law enforcement. Despite the "suspicion on the part of our people as to whether necessary measures were ever taken by the proper authorities", the group tried "to cooperate to the best of our ability." They ask: "We regarded Canada as foremost in racial and religious tolerance. Why is 'a civil war between Doukhobors' allowed to go on, and people forced to engage in violence in contradiction to the principle of faith they endeavor to uphold?" We find one copy of this broadside in OCLC. [1] Maurice Gerschon Hindus, "Doukhobors and Dissenters," in A Traveler in Two Worlds (Doubleday, 1971), 290303. Folded with some wrinkling and very small tears at margins; excellent. Broadside measuring approximately 19 x 19 inches.
