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The Very Idea

Great Ideas: Working Definitions and Clarifications

February 19, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

It’s obvious, once the question is asked, that people value “great ideas” for a variety of reasons. But perhaps a general definition may still be possible. Great Ideas are those which will not let us […]

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Land-Banks as a substitute for Alchemy?!

February 13, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

Carl Wennerlind has a great article online, tracing connections between the alchemical tradition and the rise of credit-money, including land-banking. “Credit-Money as the Philosopher’s Stone: Alchemy and the Coinage Problem in Seventeenth-Century England” starts with […]

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Susan Dimock and Bessie Greene

February 13, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

Ednah Dow Cheney’s Memoir of Susan Dimock : resident physician of the New England Hospital for Women and Children is now online. There’s some very nice material here, including accounts of the funeral for the […]

The Very Idea

Puritan New England 2: Key Categories

February 12, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

We’ve set as a goal some attention to the development of “great ideas” as they relate to politics (specifically democracy), religion (monotheism), philosophy (rationalism), and science. So it make sense to do an occasional round-up […]

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William B. Green and the LTV

February 11, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

Among the interesting questions that rise out of Greene’s early mutual bank writings is this one: did Greene really believe in a “labor theory of value” in the same way as other socialists of his […]

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Puritan America: Round-up of primary source archives

February 11, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

While this is not an exhaustive list of other archives with 17th-century New England texts online, it’s a pretty good list of places to start looking for material: The Avalon Project at Yale Law School […]

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Thomas Morton: New England Outsider

February 11, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

Thomas Morton’s and the settlement of “Merrymount” at Mount Wollaston in Massachusetts have long functioned in national mythology as the foil for the early puritan settlements. Along with Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson, Morton figures […]

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Mayflower site: New England Puritan documents online

February 11, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

The Mayflower History site has quite a bit of good material on Puritan New England, as well as .pdfs of a couple of key original tracts and sermons. 17th and 18th century titles are always […]

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Colonial Land Bank Literature

February 9, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

The major colonial land bank experiments seem to be these: 1681: The Fund at Boston, In New England1686: “Blackwell’s Bank” [proposed]1732: Connecticut land bank1714: Boston land bank [proposed]1740: Land Bank, or Manufactory Scheme, Boston The […]

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1741: Petition of London Merchants against the Land Bank

February 9, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

THE PETITION OF LONDON MERCHANTS TO PARLIAMENT,11 FEBRUARY 1741 A petition of the several merchants of London, and others, whose names are thereunto subscribed, in behalf of themselves, and great numbers of merchants, traders, and […]

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