Communal Societies Journal Vol 43, No. 2

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FROM THE EDITORS

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Article

CARL GUARNERI
Revisiting Backwoods Utopias at 75: Arthur Bestor’s Scholarship and Its Legacy     1

 

MICHAEL BARKUN
The Burned-over District at 75: Whitney Cross’s Analysis and Its Problems     17

 

OLIVIA KRALL
Living in Disharmony: Women’s Experiences of Gendered Progress and Failure in New Harmony, Indiana, 1824-1827     26

 

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Book Reviews

JANE F. CROSTHWAITE
Shaker Visions of the Divine: Essays on their Sacred Art and Scripture
Carol Medlicott, Reviewer                                                                                            50

 

KARA M. FRENCH
Against Sex: Identities of Sexual Restraint in Early America
Colby Townsend, Reviewer                                                                                            54

 

KRISTEN R. GHODSEE
Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life
Etta M. Madden, Reviewer                                                                                            58

 

SUSAN WELS
An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth- Century Sex Cult and a President’s Murder
Christa Shusko, Reviewer                                                                                            84

 

BERNARD E. HARCOURT
Cooperation: A Political, Economic and Social Theory
Patricia Ventura, Reviewer                                                                                            62

 

OLIVE JONES
Commune: Chasing a Utopian Dream in Aotearoa
William J. Metcalf, Reviewer                                                                                            66

 

CATHERINE KINGFISHER
Collaborative Happiness: Building the Good Life in Urban Cohousing Communities
Penny Clark, Reviewer                                                                                            70

 

RONAYE MATHEW AND MARGARET CRITCHLOW
Community Led Housing: A Cohousing Development Approach
David H. Entin, Reviewer                                                                                            74

 

CAROL MEDLICOTT AND CHRISTIAN GOODWILLIE
This Chosen Pleasant Hill: Shakers of the Kentucky Bluegrass
Susanna Pyatt, Reviewer                                                                                            78

 

STEPHEN C. TAYSOM
Like a Fiery Meteor: The Life of Joseph F. Smith
Erik J. Freeman, Reviewer                                                                                            81

 

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COVER

1824 Map of New Harmony, Indiana MSS 247-5334.
Courtesy of the David L. Rice Library University Archives & Special Collections at the University of Southern Indiana