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Experimental Americans : Celo and utopian community in the twentieth century / George L. Hicks.

Title
Experimental Americans : Celo and utopian community in the twentieth century / George L. Hicks.
Author
Hicks, George L.
Publication
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2001.

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x, 272 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
  • "From colonial times to the present, the United States has been home to a steady stream of utopian experimental communities. In Experimental Americans, George L. Hicks takes us inside one of the longer-lived of such communities, Celo Community in western North Carolina, to explore the dynamics of intentional communities in America."
  • "Founded in 1937 by Arthur Morgan, first chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority, Celo (pronounced see-lo) established its own rules of land tenure and taxation, conducted its internal business by consensus and did not require its members to accept any particular ideology or religious creed. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Celo and among its local neighbors, consultation of Celo's documentary records, and interviews with ex-members, Hicks traces the Community's ups and downs.
  • Attacked for its opposition to World War II, Celo was revived by pacifists released from prisons and Civilian Public Service camps after the war; debilitated in the 1950s by bitter feuds with ex-members, it was buoyed up in the 1960s by the radical enthusiasm of new currents in the nation."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Celo Community > History
  • Collective settlements > North Carolina > History
  • Utopias > United States > History > 20th century
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-266) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Culture and utopian Americans -- Utopian problems and explanations -- Utopia in the Great Depression -- A New Deal utopian -- The seedman's new crop -- Bloom and harvest -- Constructing agreement -- Consensus : recruits and defectors -- Defining utopia : Celo and its neighbors -- Utopian outcomes : development and change -- Conclusion : Americans and utopians.
ISBN
0252026616 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^00012454^
OCLC
45387124
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library