Includes bibliographical references (pages 495-505) and index.
Introduction / Douglas E. Pitzer -- Communitarian societies in colonial America / Donald F. Durnbaugh -- The Shakers of Mother Ann Lee / Priscilla J. Brewer -- George Rapp's Harmony Society / Karl J.R. Arndt -- The new moral world of Robert Owen and New Harmony / Donald E. Pitzer -- One heart and mind: communal life and values among the Mormons / Dean L. May -- Brook Farm and the Fourierist phalanxes: immediatism gradualism, and American utopian socialism / Carl J. Guarneri -- The Community of True Inspiration from Germany to Amana Colonies / Jonathan G. Andelson -- Religious orders and monastic communalism in America / Lawrence J. McCrank -- Free love and community: John Humphrey Noyes and the Oneida perfectionists / Lawrence Foster -- An American elysium: the Icarian communities / Robert P. Sutton -- Eric Jansson and the Bishop Hill Colony / Jon Wagner -- Living in the ark: four centuries of Hutterite faith and community / Gertrude E. Huntington -- American Jewish agricultural colonies / Pearl W. Bartelt -- Cyrus Reed Teed and the Koreshan Unity / James E. Landing -- The Theosophical communities and their ideal of universal brotherhood / J. Gordon Melton -- California's socialist utopias / Robert V. Hine -- Father Divine and the Peace Mission / Robert S. Weisbrot -- Appendix: America's communal utopias founded by 1965 / compiled by Donald E. Pitzer -- Bibliographical essay / Donald E. Pitzer