Heaven is a place on Earth : searching for an American utopia /
Shirk, Adrian,
Heaven is a place on Earth : searching for an American utopia / Adrian Shirk. - First hardcover edition. - 333 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-333).
"Told in a series of essays that balance memoir with fieldwork, [this book] is an idiosyncratic study of American utopian experiments--from the Shakers to the radical faerie communes of Short Mountain to the Bronx rebuilding movement--through the lens of one woman's quest to create a more communal life in a time of unending economic and social precarity."--Dust jacket flap.
9781640093300 1640093303
2021027708
Communitarianism--United States.
Belonging (Social psychology)--United States.
Utopias--United States.
Heaven is a place on Earth : searching for an American utopia / Adrian Shirk. - First hardcover edition. - 333 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-333).
"Told in a series of essays that balance memoir with fieldwork, [this book] is an idiosyncratic study of American utopian experiments--from the Shakers to the radical faerie communes of Short Mountain to the Bronx rebuilding movement--through the lens of one woman's quest to create a more communal life in a time of unending economic and social precarity."--Dust jacket flap.
9781640093300 1640093303
2021027708
Communitarianism--United States.
Belonging (Social psychology)--United States.
Utopias--United States.