[PDF] George Rapps Years Of Glory eBook

Author : Karl John Richard Arndt
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 1204 pages
File Size : 39,45 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
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This is the seventh volume of a documentary history of the Harmony Society, 1785-1916, which built the towns of Harmony in Butler County, Pennsylvania, New Harmony in Indiana, and Economy in Pennsylvania. It covers the period from Frederick Rapp's to George Rapp's death, and takes its title from the fact that in previous volumes all business of the Harmony Society was conducted under the name of Frederick Rapp, the financial genius of the Harmonists, and the fact that with Frederick Rapp's death, George Rapp emerged clearly for all the world to see as the absolute manager of «the only thing the children of the world respect: money.» George Rapp proves to be not only the «greatest communist of the age» but also a shrewd capitalist who outwits President Andrew Jackson's veto of the United States Bank charter renewal by withdrawing the Harmony Society account in British gold and silver and burying it safely for the security of his Harmonists. Friedrich Engels, impressed by the success of George Rapp's Harmony Society in 1845 advises German labor as men without property to safeguard themselves against the threat of hunger resulting from unemployment to organize themselves into such communes. A Cincinnati attorney-at-law in a book published in London comparing the advantages of America and England proclaims that the day will come when «the names of Rapp and Bäumeler will be associated with those of Washington and Jefferson. Indeed future ages will regard the day on which the German socialists struck the axe into the American forest as one of the most memorable epochs in the annals of the world.» French and German documents are given in their original language with English summaries or translations. This volume contains numerous German documents.

Author : Michelle C. Smith
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 25,93 MB
Release : 2021-10-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 080933836X

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A necessary rhetorical history of women’s work in utopian communities Utopian Genderscapes focuses on three prominent yet understudied intentional communities—Brook Farm, Harmony Society, and the Oneida Community—who in response to industrialization experimented with radical social reform in the antebellum United States. Foremost among the avenues of reform was the place and substance of women’s work. Author Michelle C. Smith seeks in the communities’ rhetorics of teleology, choice, and exceptionalism the lived consequences of the communities' lofty goals for women members. This feminist history captures the utopian reconfiguration of women’s bodies, spaces, objects, and discourses and delivers a needed intervention into how rhetorical gendering interacts with other race and class identities. The attention to each community’s material practices reveals a gendered ecology, which in many ways squared unevenly with utopian claims. Nevertheless, this volume argues that this utopian moment inaugurated many of the norms and practices of labor that continue to structure women’s lives and opportunities today: the rise of the factory, the shift of labor from home spaces to workplaces, the invention of housework, the role of birth control and childcare, the question of wages, and the feminization of particular kinds of labor. An impressive and diverse array of archival and material research grounds each chapter’s examination of women’s professional, domestic, or reproductive labor in a particular community. Fleeting though they may seem, the practices and lives of those intentional women, Smith argues, pattern contemporary divisions of work along the vibrant and contentious lines of gender, race, and class and stage the continued search for what is possible.

Author : Donald E. Pitzer
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 36,7 MB
Release : 2010-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 080789897X

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From the Shakers to the Branch Davidians, America's communal utopians have captured the popular imagination. Seventeen original essays here demonstrate the relevance of such groups to the mainstream of American social, religious, and economic life. The contributors examine the beliefs and practices of the most prominent utopian communities founded before 1965, including the long-overlooked Catholic monastic communities and Jewish agricultural colonies. Also featured are the Ephrata Baptists, Moravians, Shakers, Harmonists, Hutterites, Inspirationists of Amana, Mormons, Owenites, Fourierists, Icarians, Janssonists, Theosophists, Cyrus Teed's Koreshans, and Father Divine's Peace Mission. Based on a new conceptual framework known as developmental communalism, the book examines these utopian movements throughout the course of their development--before, during, and after their communal period. Each chapter includes a brief chronology, giving basic information about the group discussed. An appendix presents the most complete list of American utopian communities ever published. The contributors are Jonathan G. Andelson, Karl J. R. Arndt, Pearl W. Bartelt, Priscilla J. Brewer, Donald F. Durnbaugh, Lawrence Foster, Carl J. Guarneri, Robert V. Hine, Gertrude E. Huntington, James E. Landing, Dean L. May, Lawrence J. McCrank, J. Gordon Melton, Donald E. Pitzer, Robert P. Sutton, Jon Wagner, and Robert S. Weisbrot.

Author : Donald E. Pitzer
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 16,1 MB
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0253356458

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Intellectuals as well as artisans are drawn to this place of science and spirit.

Author : Michael J. Lewis
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 30,6 MB
Release : 2016-11-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1400884314

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A fascinating exploration of the urbanism at the heart of Utopian thinking The vision of Utopia obsessed the nineteenth-century mind, shaping art, literature, and especially town planning. In City of Refuge, Michael Lewis takes readers across centuries and continents to show how Utopian town planning produced a distinctive type of settlement characterized by its square plan, collective ownership of properties, and communal dormitories. Some of these settlements were sanctuaries from religious persecution, like those of the German Rappites, French Huguenots, and American Shakers, while others were sanctuaries from the Industrial Revolution, like those imagined by Charles Fourier, Robert Owen, and other Utopian visionaries. Because of their differences in ideology and theology, these settlements have traditionally been viewed separately, but Lewis shows how they are part of a continuous intellectual tradition that stretches from the early Protestant Reformation into modern times. Through close readings of architectural plans and archival documents, many previously unpublished, he shows the network of connections between these seemingly disparate Utopian settlements—including even such well-known town plans as those of New Haven and Philadelphia. The most remarkable aspect of the city of refuge is the inventive way it fused its eclectic sources, ranging from the encampments of the ancient Israelites as described in the Bible to the detailed social program of Thomas More's Utopia to modern thought about education, science, and technology. Delving into the historical evolution and antecedents of Utopian towns and cities, City of Refuge alters notions of what a Utopian community can and should be.