| Angel and the Serpent: The Story of New Harmony Contributor(s): Wilson, William E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0253203260 ISBN-13: 9780253203267 Publisher: Indiana University Press OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 1984 Annotation: 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. 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - General |
| Dewey: 977.2 |
| LCCN: 64010827 |
| Series: Midland Book |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 6.06" W x 9.26" (0.99 lbs) 242 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Academic - Cultural Region - Heartland - Cultural Region - Midwest - Geographic Orientation - Indiana |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
