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Item Details
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THE 60'S COMMUNES
HIPPIES AND BEYOND |
| By: |
Timothy Miller |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£20.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
081560601X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780815606017 |
| Publisher: |
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 December, 1999 |
| Series: |
Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution |
| Pages: |
576 |
| Language: |
English, Multiple languages |
| Description: |
A survey of the wave of communal living in America, which crested in the 1960s and early 1970s. Based on over 500 interviews conducted for the 60s Commune Project, among other sources, it preserves a colourful and vigorous episode in American history. |
| Synopsis: |
The greatest wave of communal living in American history crested in the tumultuous 1960s era including the early 1970s. To the fascination and amusement of more decorous citizens, hundreds of thousands of mostly young dreamers set out to build a new culture apart from the established society that they believed was on a slippery slope to oblivion. Widely believed by the larger public to be sinks of drug-ridden sexual immorality, the communes variously fascinated and repelled the American people. The intentional communities of the 1960s era were far more diverse than the stereotype of the hippie commune would suggest. A great many of them were religious in basis, stressing spiritual seeking and disciplined lifestyles. Others were founded on secular visions of a better society. Hundreds of them became so stable that they still survive today. This is a survey of the broad sweep of this great social yearning from the first portents of a new type of communitarianism in the early 1960s through the waning of the movement in the mid-1970s.Based on over 500 interviews conducted for the 60s Commune Project, among other sources, it preserves a colourful and vigorous episode in American history. |
| Illustrations: |
7 photographs, 3 maps, appendix, index |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Syracuse University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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