• The People Called Shakers by Edward Deming Andrews, 1963 Dover Publications paperback - front cover
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  • The People Called Shakers by Edward Deming Andrews, 1963 Dover Publications paperback - front cover and spine
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  • The People Called Shakers by Edward Deming Andrews, 1963 Dover Publications paperback - title page
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  • The People Called Shakers by Edward Deming Andrews, 1963 Dover Publications paperback - table of contents
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  • The People Called Shakers by Edward Deming Andrews, 1963 Dover Publications paperback - introduction
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The People Called Shakers: A Search for the Perfect Society

The People Called Shakers: A Search for the Perfect Society

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Book Notes: Covers with light rubbing, small chips along the top edge of the front cover and a slight upward curl to the front cover. Pages toned, with tan stains along the bottom edge of the first page and uneven toning on the page edges. Binding tight. Embossed owner's blind stamp ('Library of ...' with an EDS-style monogram) on the first page, lower right corner.

Author(s): Edward Deming Andrews
Edition: New Enlarged Edition

Publication year: 1963

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Publisher: Dover Publications

Condition: Good
ISBN: 9780486210810

Edward Deming Andrews' history of the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, better known as the Shakers, drawn from manuscripts, primary sources and his contact with Shaker communities. It covers Ann Lee and the movement's origins in 18th-century England, its move to New England, early Shaker communism and westward expansion, Shaker labor, industry and design, worship with its songs and dances, the revivals of the 1830s and 40s, community organization, relations with the outside world and the decline after the Civil War. This Dover edition, an unabridged republication of the 1953 Oxford University Press edition, is the first to include the author's notes, plus appendices with the Millennial Laws, a statistical view of the Shaker communities and a bibliography; 33 illustrations.

Dover Publications, New York. New enlarged edition (Dover edition first published 1963).

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