Oneida Community : the breakup, 1876-1881.

In this first detailed examination of the breakup of upstate New York's Oneida Community, which was for more than thirty years a most successful experiment in communal living, Mrs. Robertson traces the strands of dissent and dissolution as reported in the members' own writings. Extracts fr...

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Main Author: Robertson, Constance Noyes.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [Syracuse] : Syracuse University Press, 1972.
Edition:[First edition].
Series:York State book.
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Table of Contents:
  • The great discussion
  • JHN's retirement
  • Theodore and Ann
  • JHN resumes command
  • Crusade of the clergy
  • Under the surface
  • Collision
  • JHN's departure
  • The new government
  • The tug of war
  • The end of complex marriage
  • Marriage after the fashion of the world
  • Paul's platform
  • The new council
  • Proposal of joint stock
  • "Pinafore"
  • The Wallingford altercation
  • The Hinds-Kinsley correspondence
  • Real, false, and non-communists
  • The Towner-Kelly imbroglio
  • The commission meets
  • Agreement to divide and reorganize.