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The Angel and the Serpent
William E. Wilson
其他書名
The Story of New Harmony
出版Indiana University Press, 1984-04-22
主題History / United States / GeneralHistory / United States / State & Local / GeneralHistory / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)Religion / General
ISBN97802532032670253203260
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=TJ7g0qTsbNAC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋"The Angel and the Serpent is a book which combines scholarship and literary grace, and which recreates for us both the world of the Rappites and the Owenites.Ó ÑHenry Steele Commager, ÑThe New York Times Book ReviewÒWilson writes with clarity and humor and has given us a work which will be valuable both to the cultural historian and to the general reader.Ó ÑSt. Louis Globe DemocratÒ. . . exceedingly valuable addition to Indiana historiography.Ó ÑIndianapolis TimesHere is the story of George RappÕs German Harmonists and Robert OwenÕs IdealistsÑthe two vastly different communities that shaped the history of New Harmony, Indiana. Both the Rappites and the Owenites came to New Harmony to conduct communal living experimentsÑRapp expecting the millennium; Owen believing he had brought the millennium with him. Although the two men were motivated by different ideas, they shared the same goal: to see their people live together in happiness and peace. Their two experiments are probably the best known and most interesting efforts at establishing alternate or Utopian communities in America.