Author: Paul S. GauthierPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Iowa History "quest for Utopia" .The Icarians of Adams County
Heritage Quest
Author: Les Icariens
Author: Robert P. SuttonPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252020674
Category : Icarian movement
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This is the first complete account of the epic tale of the Icarians and their dream of creating a perfect society without money or property. Robert P. Sutton analyzes the origins of Icarianism in the milieu of French politics in the 1840s, discusses its founder Etienne Cabet, and traces the eventual creation of six communal societies in Illinois, Iowa, and California between 1848 and 1898. Les Icariens is a fascinating amalgam of biography, a history of French Socialism, and the story of one of the longest-lived secular communal experiments in America.
Travels in Icaria
Author: Etienne CabetPublisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815630098
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Radical in its dayand long overdue in Englishthis rare French classic traces the journey of fictional British Lord Clarisdall to the exotic island nation of Icaria. To his delight, Clarisdell discovers an ideal utopian democracy prospering amid peace and harmony. Devoid of competition or property, Icaria triumphs over the social evils of nineteeth-century capitalism. Clarisdell's amazement is constant. Foreign affairs are conducted by the community. Money and domestic commerce do not exist. Everyone gives to and draws from the common pot in equal measure. No pastoral idyll, the narrative describes a modern machine-age economy with social policiesfree education, equality for the sexes, strict family/moral tiesthat reflect enlightenment. Crime here is a myth; arts and culture are treasured commodities. Cabet described a totally integrated "community of goods" in the fifty years following the great revolution of 1782. Published at personal risk, his bold allegory gave birth to a real Icarian community that lasted into the late 1800s.
The History of the Icarian Colony (Adams County)
Author: Maude M. FrimanPublisher:
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Category : Adams County (Iowa)
Languages : en
Pages : 14
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Communal Utopias and the American Experience
Author: Robert P. SuttonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313039135
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
This important study begins with America's first secular utopia at New Harmony in 1824 and traces successive utopian experiments in the United States through the following centuries. For the first time, readers will come to realize that American communalism is not a disjointed, erratic, almost ephemeral part of our past, but has been an on-going, essential part of American history. We have a communal utopian motif that sets the history of the United States apart from any other nation. The utopian communal story is just one other dimension of the Puritan concept that America was a city upon a hill, a beacon light to all the world where the perfect society could be built and could flourish. After discussing New Harmony and other Owenite communities, the author examines nine Fourierist utopias that were built before the Civil War. Next, he analyzes the five Icarian colonies that, collectively, were the longest-lived, non-religious communal experiments in American history. Then, discussion moves to the seven Gilded Age socialist cooperatives, followed by the utopian communities created during President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. Finally, Sutton turns to the hippie colonies and intentional communities of the last half of the 20th century.
Hawkeye Heritage
Author: Icaria, a Chapter in the History of Communism
Author: Albert ShawPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230287294
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Languages : en
Pages : 50
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX I. CONTRACT OF THE NEW ICARIAN COMMUNITY Of Adams County, Iowa. In order to form an association whose object is the realization of Community on Icarian principles, and the" formation and establishment of a common fund for the assurance to each of us and of our children of our wants, intellectual and material, in all conditions of life--infancy, old age, health, sickness, and infirmity, --and being resolved to give to our association a solid basis and to place its existence beyond the risk of all misunderstanding and of all controversy which might arise among us, -- We, the undersigned, members of the ex-Community Icarian of Adams County, Iowa, do freely and voluntarily make, admit, sign, and accept this contract for the formation of an association which shall be known under the name of the New Icarian Community of Adams County, Iowa. Consequently we give and transfer freely to our said association all property of every nature and of every kind immovable, movable, and mixed--which we have and possess now, and also all property of every kind which we may acquire in the future--by inheritance, gift, or otherwise, to be during our lives and after our death and for ever the exclusive property of the New Icarian Community. We promise and agree freely and formally that, at no time and in no case will we, or any of us, make any reclamation or demand, nor will we claim any pecuniary compensation for any property which we give now or which we may give in the future to our association, either for interest or for capital, for work, labor, or any other service which we may have performed for it. We formally enjoin upon our heirs and upon their guardians, in perpetual succession, not to make any reclamation against our said association for any...
Final Report, The French Icarians of Adams County, Iowa
Author: Leah D. RogersPublisher:
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Category : Adams County (Iowa)
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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