Includes bibliographical references and index.

Amana colonies -- Amish -- Ananda colonies -- Anarchism -- Antislavery communities -- Bellamy, Edward -- Bible communism -- Bishop Hill -- Bohemia Manor -- Brook Farm and Fourierist Phalanxes -- Brotherhood of the New Life -- Bruderhof -- Buddhist communities -- Burned-over district -- Camphill movement -- Capitalism -- Catholic worker movement -- Children and child rearing -- Civil rights movement -- Civil War -- Cohousing -- Cooperatives -- Cults -- Davidian and Branch Davidian movements -- Ecovillages -- Education -- Ephrata Cloister -- Fairhope and single-tax communities -- Family -- The family/children of God -- The farm -- Fellowship for intentional community -- Ferrer Colony (Stelton) -- George, Henry -- Great Depression -- Gronlund, Laurence -- Harmony Society -- Hippies -- Home colony -- House of David movement -- Hutterites -- Icarian movement -- Industrial Revolution -- International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Hare Krishna movement) -- Jerusalem/Society of Universal Friends -- Jesus People USA -- Jewish agricultural communities -- Kaweah Cooperative Commonwealth -- Keil Communities-Bethel and Aurora -- Koinonia Farm/Koinonia Partners -- Koreshan Unity -- Leadership and decision making -- Literary utopias -- Llano del Rio and New Llano -- Love family -- Millennialism -- Moravian movement -- More, Thomas -- New Deal communities -- New Harmony and Owenite movement -- Oneida Community -- Orderville and Mormon communalism -- Owen, Robert -- Pacifism -- Peace mission movement -- Persecution -- Point Loma and theosophical communities -- Rainbow Family of Living Light -- Rajneeshpuram -- Renaissance Community/Brotherhood of the Spirit -- Rugby -- Ruskin -- Shakers -- Skinner, B.F. -- Socialism -- Society of the Woman in the Wilderness -- Steiner, Rudolf -- Synanon -- Transcendentalism -- Twin Oaks Community -- Valley of the Swans -- Women, status of -- Zoar Society.