Donald E. Pitzer, professor of history and director of the Center for Communal Studies at the University of Southern Indiana, is a founder and former executive director of the Communal Studies Association.
"A unique and most important contribution to modern literature
about the American historical communes. . . . Indispensable to
every library and to every student and researcher of the
subject."--Bulletin of the International Communal Studies
Association
"An outstanding collection of historical vignettes of communal
utopias founded in America prior to 1965. The essays are very well
written, readable, and colourful contributions to the story of
American religion."--Journal of Contemporary Religion
"For readers who wish a searching exposition of the history of the
most important communal experiments, incorporating the best recent
scholarship, this is a valuable contribution."--People's
Culture
"No other book like it exists. . . . This work will be plagiarized
extensively for lectures, consulted frequently for details and
facts on various personages and movements, and dog-eared for
specific references and points which will send readers off on their
own research journeys."--Journal of Religious History
"Pitzer's volume provides readers an excellent survey of the
variety of communal societies in the American experience. . . .
Both specialists and the uninitiated will profit from this
collection."--Indiana Magazine of History
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