@article{706076,
      author = {Miller, Timothy,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/706076},
      title = {The encyclopedic guide to American intentional communities  /},
      publisher = {Richard W Couper Press,},
      abstract = {"Commune! The word conjures up images of a few isolated  idealists, religious fanatics, and social misfits. A  commune is a decidedly marginal blip on the American  landscape. Nevertheless communes have studded American  history--many thousands of them from the seventeenth  century to the present. Although many have heard of the  Shakers and (perhaps) the Hutterites and the Harmonists,  communes--most of which now prefer to be known as  intentional communities--represent a largely hidden slice  of American history, despite the fact that they have been  home to over a million Americans. Many small studies and  surveys of American communal movements have been published  over the last two hundred years, but the phenomenon of  communal living in its fullness remains largely in the  shadows. This work has been compiled to dispel those  shadows by providing brief sketches of as many American  intentional communities as I have been able to identify  from the early days of European colonization down to the  present [approximately 3,000]. The work also seeks to  provide a few reliable references to primary and secondary  sources of information on each community."--Page xi.},
      recid = {706076},
      pages = {xxi, 586 pages ;},
      address = {Clinton, N.Y. :},
      year = {2013},
}