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Online-Ressource (296 p)
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Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780803245396
Content:
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 its
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Maps; Preface; Introduction: Llewellyn Castle; 1. The Sorrow of the Land: Bronterre O'Brien and the National Reform League; 2. High Moral Chivalry: The Mutual Land, Emigration, and Cooperative Colonization Company; 3. An Honest Social State: The Workingmen's Cooperative Colony; 4. Moral Intoxication: Frederick Wilson; 5. Hold Up the Lamp of Hope: John Radford; Conclusion: The O'Brienites; Appendix; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780803248458
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780803245396
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Llewellyn Castle : A Worker's Cooperative on the Great Plains
Language:
English
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