The people called Shakers : a search for the perfect society / by Edward Deming Andrews.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Dover Publications, 1963.Edition: New enl. edDescription: xvi, 351 pages : maps, facs. ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0486210812
  • 9780486210810
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 289.8
LOC classification:
  • BX9765 .A6 1963
NLM classification:
  • BX 9765 A566p 1963
Contents:
Ann Lee leads the way -- Opening the testimony in America -- Mission into New England -- Early Shaker communism -- Expansion westward -- Temporal labor : principles and practice -- Spiritual labor : mode of worship -- 'Mother Ann's work' -- Internal order -- Relations with the world -- Decline of the order.
Summary: Studies the history of the Shakers in America and their cultural influence.
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Originally published: London : Oxford University Press, 1953.

"T1081."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-297) and index (p. 341-351).

Ann Lee leads the way -- Opening the testimony in America -- Mission into New England -- Early Shaker communism -- Expansion westward -- Temporal labor : principles and practice -- Spiritual labor : mode of worship -- 'Mother Ann's work' -- Internal order -- Relations with the world -- Decline of the order.

Studies the history of the Shakers in America and their cultural influence.

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