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001 2013045029
003 DLC
005 20150512083920.0
008 140129s2014 orua b s001 0 eng
010 $a 2013045029
020 $a9780870717420 (paperback)
020 $z9780870717437 (e-book)
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042 $apcc
043 $an-us-wa
050 00 $aF899.H66$bW34 2014
082 00 $a979.7$223
084 $aHIS036110$aHIS054000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aWadland, Justin.
245 10 $aTrying Home :$bthe rise and fall of an anarchist utopia on Puget Sound /$cJustin Wadland.
264 1 $aCorvalis :$bOregon State University Press,$c2014.
300 $axii, 180 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"The true story of an anarchist colony on a remote Puget Sound peninsula, Trying Home traces the history of Home, Washington, from its founding in 1896 to its dissolution amid bitter infighting in 1921. As a practical experiment in anarchism, Home offered its participants a rare degree of freedom and tolerance in the Gilded Age, but the community also became notorious to the outside world for its open rejection of contemporary values. Using a series of linked narratives, Trying Home reveals the stories of the iconoclastic individuals who lived in Home, among them Lois Waisbrooker, an advocate of women's rights and free love, who was arrested for her writings after the assassination of President McKinley; Jay Fox, editor of The Agitator, who defended his right to free speech all the way to the Supreme Court; and Donald Vose, a young man who grew up in Home and turned spy for a detective agency. Justin Wadland weaves his own discovery of Home-and his own reflections on the concept of home-into the story, setting the book apart from a conventional history. After discovering the newspapers published in the colony, Wadland ventures beyond the documents to explore the landscape, travelling by boat along the steamer route most visitors once took to the settlement. He visits Home to talk with people who live there now. Meticulously researched and engagingly written, Trying Home will fascinate scholars and general readers alike, especially those interested in the history of the Pacific Northwest, utopian communities, and anarchism"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 164) and index.
651 0 $aHome (Wash.)$xHistory.
650 0 $aCollective settlements$zWashington (State)$xHistory.
650 0 $aUtopias$zWashington (State)$xHistory.
650 0 $aAnarchism$zWashington (State)$xHistory.
650 7 $aHISTORY / United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (OR, WA).$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / Social History.$2bisacsh