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America's Great Plains highlights the connections between British and American reform movements and their contexts.

Table of 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

About the Author

Gary R. Entz is a historian who previously taught at McPherson College in Kansas. He currently teaches at Nicolet College in Wisconsin. His articles have appeared in the Journal of Mormon History and Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Great Plains and in edited volumes.

Reviews

"Llewellyn Castle will be quite important to specialists in regional history, British history, and communal studies... [This is] scholarship at its finest." - Timothy Miller, author of The Quest for Utopia in Twentieth-Century America, 1900-1960