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Morton, Keith. "Community as Metaphor: Anarchy and Structure in American Culture, 1830-1920," University of Minnesota, March 1986. (11, 16)
Before 1830, Americans generally used the word “community” in reference to religious or utopian enterprises; by 1920 it was a term commonly used in evaluating the secular, human experience of urban and industrial expansion. In close analyses of the works of Emerson, Emma Goldman, and Josiah Royce, and the planning of the World’s Columbian Exposition, this dissertation argues that community emerged in nineteenth-century America as a metaphor for the growing tension between the centralization and specialization of power and authority expressed in formal social institutions (structure), and the anti-institutional emphasis of individual autonomy and decentralization (anarchy).
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