Angel and the Serpent

The Story of New Harmony

von William E. Wilson

276 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

"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." -Henry Steele Commager, The New York Times Book Review Here is the story of George Rapp's German Harmonists and Robert Owen's Idealists-the 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 experiments-Rapp expecting the millennium; Owen believing he had brought the millennium with him.

• Reihe: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• ISBN: 9780253203267
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.04.1984
• Größe: 234 x 156 mm
• Verlag: Indiana University Press