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Too much anarchism at Google Books?

November 8, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Curiouser and curiouser. While doing some research on early appearances of the word “anarchism,” prior to 1870, I ran across numerous hits on Google Books for very early texts, many of them in French. Now, […]

An Early Libertarian Communist

November 7, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Paul Brown, whose Twelve Months in New Harmony I posted some time ago, was, from various indications, a friend of Josiah Warren. He was also the most articulate voice in favor of property-in-common that we […]

Onward and upward!

November 3, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’m obviously disappointed about the early cancellation of the “Roots of American Anarchism” course, but I’ve also already done much of the work to make the course possible. I had already started breaking the graduate-level […]

Ah, Well…

November 2, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve just been informed that the Spring course on “The Roots of American Anarchism” will not run.

Educational counter-institutions, I

October 31, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Thanks to those who have responded, either on the blog or through email, to my post on the “Roots of American Anarchism” course. I suspect that our pilot course online will fall somewhere between self-paced […]

Calculus, Poetry, the two William Batchelder Greenes, etc

October 29, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

As much as I complain, and will continue to complain, about the quality of Google Books’ digital archive, their access to materials is remarkable. I have very mixed feelings about that access, given the rather […]

John Gray (1799-1883)

October 29, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

John Gray, best known for his Lecture on Human Happiness, is frequently listed among the earliest of mutualists. Certainly, he was an important figure among the more-or-less-Owenite socialists of the mid-1820s. His Lecture was cited […]

1919 Mutual Banking online

October 26, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Henry Cohen published a number of editions of William Batchelder Greene’s Mutual Banking in the 20th century. The pieces of that particular bibliographic puzzle have been hard to assemble. Thanks to archive.org, we have at […]

Fall Classic time

October 24, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Happy World Series Season! from the LCA Baseball Syndicate

“Roots of American Anarchism” course, and Beyond(?)

October 22, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Well, it looks now like a fairly sure thing that I’ll be teaching a graduate-level course on “The Roots of American Anarchism.” This course is really concerned with the roots of the American anarchist traditions, […]