Contents
Shaker Studies
- JANE F. CROSTHWAITE, The Spirit Drawings of Hannah Cohoon: Window on the Shakers and Their Folk Art, 1
- KAREN K. NICKLESS and PAMELA J. NICKLESS, Trustees, Deacons, and Deaconesses: The Temporal Role of the Shaker Sisters, 1820-1890, 16
- PRISCILLA J. BREWER, “Numbers Are Not the Thing for Us to Glory In”: Demographic Perspectives on the Decline of the Shakers, 25
- BARBARA ROTUNDO, Crossing the Dark River: Shaker Funerals and Cemeteries, 36
- BENNETT LOWENTHAL, The Topolobampo Colony in the Contest of Porfirian Mexico, 47
- KIT FIRTH CRESS, Communitarian Connections: Josiah Warren, Robert Smith, and Peter Kaufmann, 67
- FRANCIS SHOR, The Utopian Project in a Communal Experiment of the 1930’s: The Sunrise Colony in Historical and Comparative Perspective, 82
Communitarian Sources
- MARK F. WEIMER, The William A. Hinds American Communities Collection, 95
Reviews
- DALE L. FLESHER, The Angel and the Serpent: The Story of New Harmony, by William E. Wilson, 104
- REGINA SIEGFRIED
- The Shaker Spiritual Narrative, by Diane Sasson, 105
- TIMOTHY MILLER, Communal Love at Oneida: A Perfectionist Vision of Authority, Property, and Social Order, by Richard DeMaria, 106
- CAROLYN C. BENNETT, Utopias, by Peter Alexander and Roger Gill, 108
- SUSAN E. SEARING, Alternative Lifestyles: A Guide to Research Collections on Intentional Communities, Nudism, and Sexual Freedom, by Jefferson P. Selth, 109
BOOKS NOTES 111
Cover
A Shaker group, probably at Canaan, N.Y. From a stereopticon photograph taken by a Troy, N.Y. photographer and once part of the personal collection of William A. Hinds, a member of the Oneida Community and author of American Communities. Courtesy of the William A. Hinds Collection, Syracuse University Library.