Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-319) and index.
Table of Contents
Set and setting: The roots of the 1960s-era communes -- The new communes emerge: 1960-1965 -- Communes begin to spread: 1965-1967 -- Out of the Haight and back to the land: Countercultural communes after the summer of love -- Searching for a common center: religious and spiritual communes -- Secular visionaries: Communes for social reform and the good life -- Ends and means: Communal ideologies, economics, and organization -- The people of the communes -- Doing it: Daily life in the communes -- Moving on -- Afterword: Communal life after 1975.