Close, interdependent communities not based on family relationships, communes have a long history in the United States and continue to represent a strand of American culture and ideology that sanctions the search for a utopia of peace, love, and...

. Communes were sworn associations of rural or urban dwellers designed to provide collective protection from seigneurial authority. The earliest development of self-governing cities occurred in the later 11th century between the Loire and the...

Commune has several meanings in politics. The more clear-cut and technical usage is found in Western Europe, where it usually describes the most basic level of local government, roughly equivalent to a British parish or local district council, or an...

An association of persons jointly owning a productive enterprise and managing it themselves. The most famous examples are the Paris Commune of 1871, the Israeli kibbutz and Robert OWEN’S communities in the early nineteenth century in England and...

Commune can refer to various things: Municipality or townships in various European countries, including Gemeenten/Communes/Gemeinden of Belgium, the lowest level of administrative division. After several "fusion-operations", most of them include named...

Communication and Community. Gregory J. Shepherd and Eric W. Rothenbuhler, eds. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers, 2001. 289 pp. $59.95 hbk. $32.50 pbk. Though its editors note that current public debates on the state of the American community inspired this volume, its...

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Harlin McEwen says his grandchildren are able to communicate in a more technologically advanced way than are most of the nation's police and firefighters, and that concerns him.A former police chief in New York state with 47 years of law enforcement experience, McEwen is an...

We've all heard the expression "communication is a two-way street." Perhaps nowhere is this more relevant than in the business world. In everything from one-off project proposals to corporate mergers which affect operations and potentially thousands of employees and customers, the only way each side,...