LEADER 02394cam 2200193 a 4500
001 899559
005 20190104092822.0
008 190108s2016 nyuaf g b 001 0 eng d
010 $a2015044336
020 $a9781250131867 (pbk.) :$cNT$630
040 $aTWTNM$beng$dTWTNM
050 00$aHX656.O5$bW39 2016
082 04$a307.770974764$222
100 1 $aWayland-Smith, Ellen,$d1966-
245 10$aOneida :$bfrom free love Utopia to the well-set table /$cEllen Wayland-Smith.
246 30$aFrom free love Utopia to the well-set table.
260 $aNew York :$bPicador,$c[2016].
300 $a310 p., 16 unnumbered p. of plates :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 271-294) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- A Minister is Born -- Noyes in the Underworld -- New Jerusalem (in Vermont) -- Electric Sex, or, How to Live Forever -- Marriage Grows Complex -- The Machine in the Garden -- Sticky Love -- Brave New World -- Twilight of the Gods -- Things Fall Apart -- Selling Silver -- Survival of the Fittest -- The Strike of a Sex -- Back Home for Keeps -- The Burning -- Epilogue.
520 $aAmidst the religious fervor of the Second Great Awakening, John Humphrey Noyes, a spirited but socially awkward young man, attracted a group of devoted followers with his fiery sermons about creating Jesus'' millennial kingdom here on earth. Noyes and his followers built a large communal house in rural New York where they engaged in what Noyes called complex marriage, an elaborate system of free love where sexual relations with multiple partners was encouraged. Noyes was eventually inspired to institute a program of eugenics, known as stirpiculture, to breed a new generation of Oneidans from the best members of the Community--many fathered by him. When Noyes died in 1886, the Community disavowed Noyes' disreputable sexual theories and embraced their thriving business of flatware. Oneida Community, Limited would go on to become one of the nation's leading manufacturers of silverware, and their brand a coveted mark of middle-class respectability in pre - and post-WWII America. Told by a descendant of one of the Community's original families, Oneida is a captivating story that straddles two centuries to reveal how a radical, free-love sect, turning its back on its own ideals, transformed into a purveyor of the white picket fence American dream. - For readers of Jill Lepore, Joseph J. Ellis, and Greg Grandin--$cProvided by publisher.
600 10$aNoyes, John Humphrey,$d1811-1886.
650 0$aSocial reformers$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0$aFree love$zNew York (State)$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0$aCollective settlements$zNew York (State)$xHistory.
650 0$aSilver flatware$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0$aTableware$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.