California's Utopian Colonies
by Robert V. Hine
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Behind the commune movement today lies an impulse for a simpler, less harried existence that has its roots deep in American history. During the last hundred years, California has contributed to the Utopian heritage more colonies than any other American state. From varied backgrounds--religious, secular, co-operative, socialistic, Theosophical, Marxian--each new society experimented with marriage, the raising of children, education, work, religion, or government.Tags
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- People/Characters
- Father William Edward Riker; Elia Katz; Henry George; Upton Sinclair; Aldous Huxley; Ernest Callenbach (show all 44); Herbert Marcuse (of San Diego); Robert Nisbet of Riverside; Mao Tse Tung; John Winthrop; Jack Tenney (California senator); Melvin Lasky; Paul Goodman; Theodore Roszak; Philip Slater; Charles Reich; Jean Ravel; Buckminster Fuller; Ken Kesey; Timothy Leary; The Wobblies; Madame Modjeska; Thomas Lake Harris; Finis Yoakum; The Mormons; The Unitarians; The Quakers; Katherine Tingley; Charles Manson (and his family); People's Temple of Jim Jones; Jim Jones; Job Harriman; Burnett Haskell; Joan Didion; Rosabeth Moss Kanter; Hugh Gardner; Benjamin Zablocki (of Berkeley); Bennett Berger; Laurence Veysey (of Santa Cruz); Charles LeWarne; Brotherhood of the Cooperative Commonwealth; Robert Fogarty; Oscar Wilde; Quakers
- Important places
- Altruria (Sonoma County, California, USA); Fountain Grove (Santa Rosa, California, USA); Krotona Colony (Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA); Halcyon, California, USA; Holy City, California, USA; Kaweah Colony (Sequoia National Park, California, USA) (show all 43); Llano Del Rio (Llano, California, USA); Lomaland (Point Loma, California, USA); Pisgah Grande (Las Llajas Canyon, California, USA); San Ysidro, California, USA; San Diego, California, USA; Riverside, California, USA; Death Valley, California, USA; Mount Whitney, California, USA; Morningstar and Wheeler's Ranch near Occidental College, Los Angeles, California, USA; Hog Farm near Los Angeles, California, USA; Holiday and Star Hill near Santa Cruz, California, USA; Table Mountain near Mendocino, California, USA; Army of Industry, California, USA; Paradise Valley near Bolinas, California, USA; Mann Ranch near Ukiah, California, USA; Little Landers colon near San Diego, California, USA; Fellowship Farm near Puente, California, USA; Joyful near Bakersfield, California, USA; Kerista Village, San Francisco area, California, USA; Harrad West, San Francisco area, California, USA; Family Synergy, Los Angeles, California, USA; Project One, San Francisco, California, USA; Black Bart Brigade near San Francisco, California, USA; Catholic Worker House, Los Angeles, California, USA; Harwood House, Oakland, California, USA; Skid Row Los Angeles, California, USA; Lighthouse Ranch near Arcata, California, USA; The Emissaries, near Lake Elsinore, California, USA; Koinonia, Santa Cruz, California, USA; San Bernardino, California, USA; Tuolomne Farms, California, USA; Ananda Cooperative Village, Nevada City, California, USA; Green Gulch Ranch near Stinson Beach, California, USA; Zen Center, California, USA; Theosophical Colonies, Temple Home, California, USA; Jonestown, Guyana; California, USA
- Important events
- writing of the book (early 1950s); Vietnam War; communes spring up like mustard (1965 | 1975); Madame Modjeska's Polish experiment (1880s); The New Deal
- Epigraph
- A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which humanity is always landing. Oscar Wilde (The Soul of Man Under Socialism)
- First words
- This book has remained in print for thirty years, without so much as a comma changed.
- Original language
- English
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- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Sociology, Economics
- DDC/MDS
- 335.9794 — Society, Government, and Culture Economics Socialism and related systems Biography And History North America West Coast U.S. California
- LCC
- HX655 .C2 .H5 — Social sciences Socialism. Communism. Anarchism Socialism. Communism. Anarchism Communism: Utopian socialism, collective
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