LEADER 03585oam 22006134a 450 001 9910790631503321 005 20230803022036.0 010 $a0-8032-4845-8 035 $a(CKB)2550000001135890 035 $a(OCoLC)861559472 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10787205 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001040973 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11641773 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001040973 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11009118 035 $a(PQKB)10517380 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1490002 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse27615 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001135890 100 $a20130716d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLlewellyn Castle$eA Worker's Cooperative on the Great Plains /$fGary R. Entz 210 1$aLincoln :$cUniversity of Nebraska Press,$d2013. 210 3$aBaltimore, Md. :$cProject MUSE,$d2013 210 4$dİ2013. 215 $a1 online resource (296 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8032-4539-4 311 $a1-306-04342-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $a"In 1869 six London families arrived in Nemaha County, Kansas, as the first colonists of the Workingmen's Cooperative Colony, later fancifully renamed Llewellyn Castle by a local writer. These early colonists were all members of Britain's National Reform League, founded by noted Chartist leader James Bronterre O'Brien. As working-class radicals they were determined to find an alternative to the grinding poverty that exploitative liberal capitalism had inflicted on England's laboring poor. Located on 680 acres in northeastern Kansas, this collectivist colony jointly owned all the land and natural resources, with individuals leasing small sections to work. The money from these leases was intended for public works, health, and education of the colony members. The colony floundered after just a few years and collapsed in 1874, but its mission and founding ideas lived on in Kansas. Many former colonists became prominent political activists in the 1890s, and the colony's ideals of national fiscal policy reform and state ownership of land were carried over into the Kansas Populist movement. Based on archival research throughout the United States and the United Kingdom, this history of an English collectivist colony in America's Great Plains highlights the connections between British and American reform movements and their contexts. "--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aHISTORY / United States / 19th Century$2bisacsh 606 $aHISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)$2bisacsh 606 $aCooperative societies$zKansas$zNemaha County$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aCollective settlements$zKansas$zNemaha County$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aNemaha County (Kansas)$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aWorkingmen's Cooperative Colony (Kansas)$xHistory 615 7$aHISTORY / United States / 19th Century. 615 7$aHISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI). 615 0$aCooperative societies$xHistory 615 0$aCollective settlements$xHistory 676 $a307.7709781332 686 $aHIS036090$aHIS036040$2bisacsh 700 $aEntz$b Gary R$01487921 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790631503321 996 $aLlewellyn Castle$93708048 997 $aUNINA