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020			_a9780803248458
020			_a0803248458
020			_z9780803245396 (hardback)
040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP
050	0	0	_aHX656.W67 _bE67 2013
082	0	0	_a307.7709781332 _223
100	1		_aEntz, Gary R.
245	1	0	_aLlewellyn Castle _h[electronic resource] : _ba worker's cooperative on the Great Plains / _cGary R. Entz.
260			_aLincoln : _bUniversity of Nebraska Press, _c2013. _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject MUSE, _g2015)
300			_a1 online resource (pages cm)
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"In 1869 six London families arrived in Nemaha County, Kansas, as the first colonists of the Workingmen's Cooperative Colony, later fancifully renamed Llewellyn Castle by a local writer. These early colonists were all members of Britain's National Reform League, founded by noted Chartist leader James Bronterre O'Brien. As working-class radicals they were determined to find an alternative to the grinding poverty that exploitative liberal capitalism had inflicted on England's laboring poor. Located on 680 acres in northeastern Kansas, this collectivist colony jointly owned all the land and natural resources, with individuals leasing small sections to work. The money from these leases was intended for public works, health, and education of the colony members. The colony floundered after just a few years and collapsed in 1874, but its mission and founding ideas lived on in Kansas. Many former colonists became prominent political activists in the 1890s, and the colony's ideals of national fiscal policy reform and state ownership of land were carried over into the Kansas Populist movement. Based on archival research throughout the United States and the United Kingdom, this history of an English collectivist colony in America's Great Plains highlights the connections between British and American reform movements and their contexts. "-- _cProvided by publisher.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
651		0	_aNemaha County (Kansas) _xHistory _y19th century.
651		0	_aWorkingmen's Cooperative Colony (Kansas) _xHistory.
650		7	_aHISTORY / United States / 19th Century. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aHISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI). _2bisacsh
650		0	_aCooperative societies _zKansas _zNemaha County _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aCollective settlements _zKansas _zNemaha County _xHistory _y19th century.
600	1	0	_aO'Brien, James Bronterre, _d1805-1864.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780803248458/
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c33873 _d33873