The New Harmony Communities

By George Browning Lockwood, George B. Lockwood, George Browning Lockwood

Book Overview

One frontier town, two utopias. New Harmony, Indiana became the unlikely stage for some of the boldest communal experiments in American history. In The New Harmony Communities, journalist and historian George Browning Lockwood offers a vivid, thoroughly documented account of the religious Harmonists and the later Robert Owen New Harmony experiment, setting their hopes, struggles, and failures against the harsh realities of early American frontier communities. Blending narrative drive with careful research, this classic utopian communities history book illuminates how faith, industry, education, and radical social thought converged in one small Midwestern settlement. From the millenarian vision of a disciplined German sect to Owen's rational, progressive dream of a cooperative commonwealth, Lockwood traces how New Harmony's successive communities shaped debates on labour, gender, religion, and education in 19th century utopianism. His close attention to daily work, governance, and dissent turns this into a cornerstone study of communal experiments in America and of New Harmony Indiana history and Indiana utopian settlement history in particular, essential reading for utopian studies students, scholars of classic American social history, and Indiana local history readers interested in American communal societies nonfiction and religious communal settlements America. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, The New Harmony Communities is restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9354485014
• ISBN13: 9789354485015
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"