The Communitarian Moment by Christopher Clark (Hardcover, 1995)

dewabit Template\n\njulianhouse\n\nThe Home of Opportunity\n\nOffering direct support to the socially excluded\n\nNot just changing lives - saving lives\n\nTitle: The Communitarian Moment: The Radical Challenge of the Northampton Association\nAuthor: Christopher Clark\nPublisher: Cornell University Press\nISBN 10: 0801427304 1558494162\nISBN 13: 9780801427305 9781558494169\nDESCRIPTION\nIn 1842 a group of radical abolitionists formed a community in Northampton, Massachusetts, in order to pioneer \""a better and purer state of society.\"" Calling themselves the Northampton Association of Education and Industry, they envisioned a world free of poverty and inequality, religious intolerance, slavery and racial injustice. In telling the fascinating and little-known history of the Association, Christopher Clark offers insights into the \""communitarian moment\"" of the 1840s which saw the establishment of dozens of utopian communities by Americans detet