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West of Eden: Communes and Utopia in Northern California

by Iain Boal

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Annotation"Focusing on the San Francisco Bay Area and hinterlands, with a deep history and rich legacy of cooperative schemes, West of Eden uses interviews and historical research to present vivid portraits of the rural communes of Mendocino and Sonoma, the Black Panther households in Oakland, the Diggers of Haight-Ashbury, the Native American occupation of Alcatraz, and the hippies' love affair with the Bucky dome."--Back cover.

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Published: 2012
Genres: Nonfiction, Sociology, History
DDC/MDS: 307.77
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