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Book Two Hundred Years of American Communes

Download or read book Two Hundred Years of American Communes written by Yaacov Oved and published by Transaction Pub. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States is the only modern nation in which communes have continuously existed for the past two hundred years. This definitive history of communes in America examines the major factors that have supported the existence and growth of communes throughout American history. The most impressive survey of the communal experience since the works of Noyes and Nordhoff, it is informed by a deep respect for the human subjects and organizational forms of American communes. The findings in the analytical chapters are of considerably theoretical import beyond the historical narrative. Oved details the founding, growth, development, and sometimes failure of alternative societies from 1735 to 1939: Icaria, Ephrata, Oneida, Shaker, religious, secular, and socialist communes. Extensive reference material cited will assure this work a special place in the archives of the literature on communes.

Book The National System of Political Economy

Download or read book The National System of Political Economy written by Friedrich List and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Old Time Tales of Warren County

Download or read book Old Time Tales of Warren County written by Arch Bristow and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hoosiers and the American Story

Download or read book Hoosiers and the American Story written by Madison, James H. and published by Indiana Historical Society. This book was released on 2014-10 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A supplemental textbook for middle and high school students, Hoosiers and the American Story provides intimate views of individuals and places in Indiana set within themes from American history. During the frontier days when Americans battled with and exiled native peoples from the East, Indiana was on the leading edge of America’s westward expansion. As waves of immigrants swept across the Appalachians and eastern waterways, Indiana became established as both a crossroads and as a vital part of Middle America. Indiana’s stories illuminate the history of American agriculture, wars, industrialization, ethnic conflicts, technological improvements, political battles, transportation networks, economic shifts, social welfare initiatives, and more. In so doing, they elucidate large national issues so that students can relate personally to the ideas and events that comprise American history. At the same time, the stories shed light on what it means to be a Hoosier, today and in the past.

Book Norwegian Migration to America

Download or read book Norwegian Migration to America written by Theodore Christian Blegen and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1931 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Historic New Harmony

Download or read book Historic New Harmony written by Nora Chadwick Fretageot and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Great Wave

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Hackett Fischer
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780195121216
  • Pages : 556 pages

Download or read book The Great Wave written by David Hackett Fischer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fischer has examined price records in many nations, and finds that great waves of rising prices in the 13th-, 16th-, 18th-, and 20th centuries were all marked by price swings of increasing volatility, falling wages, a growing gap between rich and poor, and an increase in violent crime, family disintegration, and cultural despair. 109 graphs & charts. 7 maps.

Book The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Religion

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Religion written by Rachel M. McCleary and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a one-of-kind volume bringing together leading scholars in the economics of religion for the first time. The treatment of topics is interdisciplinary, comparative, as well as global in nature. Scholars apply the economics of religion approach to contemporary issues such as immigrants in the United States and ask historical questions such as why did Judaism as a religion promote investment in education? The economics of religion applies economic concepts (for example, supply and demand) and models of the market to the study of religion. Advocates of the economics of religion approach look at ways in which the religion market influences individual choices as well as institutional development. For example, economists would argue that when a large denomination declines, the religion is not supplying the right kind of religious good that appeals to the faithful. Like firms, religions compete and supply goods. The economics of religion approach using rational choice theory, assumes that all human beings, regardless of their cultural context, their socio-economic situation, act rationally to further his/her ends. The wide-ranging topics show the depth and breadth of the approach to the study of religion.

Book Democracy and Education

Download or read book Democracy and Education written by John Dewey and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1916 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: . Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow struck, it remains outwardly unchanged. Otherwise, it is shattered into smaller bits. Never does the stone attempt to react in such a way that it may maintain itself against the blow, much less so as to render the blow a contributing factor to its own continued action. While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the energies which act upon it into means of its own further existence. If it cannot do so, it does not just split into smaller pieces (at least in the higher forms of life), but loses its identity as a living thing. As long as it endures, it struggles to use surrounding energies in its own behalf. It uses light, air, moisture, and the material of soil. To say that it uses them is to say that it turns them into means of its own conservation. As long as it is growing, the energy it expends in thus turning the environment to account is more than compensated for by the return it gets: it grows. Understanding the word "control" in this sense, it may be said that a living being is one that subjugates and controls for its own continued activity the energies that would otherwise use it up. Life is a self-renewing process through action upon the environment.

Book The Early Architecture of Western Pennsylvania

Download or read book The Early Architecture of Western Pennsylvania written by Charles Morse Stotz and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new edition of this long unavailable classic features an extensive analytical introduction by the noted architectural historian Dell Upton. Containing 416 black-and-white photographs, 81 measured drawings and an extensive text, this volume presents a splendid array of the early dwellings, barns, and other outbuildings, churches, arsenals, banks, inns, commercial buildings, tollhouses, mills, and even tombstones of western Pennsylvania.

Book The New Holy Wars

Download or read book The New Holy Wars written by Robert H. Nelson and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present debate raging over global warming exemplifies the clash of two public theologies. On one side, environmentalists warn of certain catastrophe if we do not take steps now to reduce the release of greenhouse gases; on the other side, economists are concerned with whether the benefits of actions to prevent higher temperatures will be worth the high costs. Robert Nelson interprets such contemporary struggles as battles between the competing secularized religions of economics and environmentalism. The outcome will have momentous consequences for us all. This book probes beneath the surface of the two movements' rhetoric to uncover their fundamental theological commitments and visions. Book jacket.

Book History of Butler County  Pennsylvania  with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers

Download or read book History of Butler County Pennsylvania with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers written by Watkins Waterman and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-06 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardcover reprint of the original 1883 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Waterman, Watkins & Co., Chicago, Pub. History Of Butler County, Pennsylvania. With Illustrations And Biographical Sketches Of Some Of Its Prominent Men And Pioneers. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Waterman, Watkins & Co., Chicago, Pub. History Of Butler County, Pennsylvania. With Illustrations And Biographical Sketches Of Some Of Its Prominent Men And Pioneers, . Chicago, Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883.

Book Rise And Fall Of Harmony Society   Economy  Pa

Download or read book Rise And Fall Of Harmony Society Economy Pa written by Various and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Book The New Society for Universal Harmony

Download or read book The New Society for Universal Harmony written by Lenore Malen and published by Granary Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by Nancy Princenthal, Jonathan Ames, Pepe Karmel, Geoffrey O'Brien, Mark Thompson, Jim Long, Susan Canning, and Barbara Tannenbaum.

Book Rise and Fall of Harmony Society   Economy  Pa

Download or read book Rise and Fall of Harmony Society Economy Pa written by Carl Frederick Straube and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Power of the Periphery

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peder Anker
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2020-05-28
  • ISBN : 1108477569
  • Pages : 303 pages

Download or read book The Power of the Periphery written by Peder Anker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how Norway has positioned itself as an alternative, environmentally-sound nation in a world filled with tension and instability.