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Natural Gas Wars, Then and Now

January 4, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

The more things change. . . and all that. There are moments when it really feels like nothing much ever changes, except perhaps the scale of our collective foolishness. Last night, over coffee, i set […]

Radical Deficiency of the Existing Circulating Medium, 1857

December 5, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

William B. Greene’s 1857 Radical Deficiency of the Existing Circulating Medium, and the Advantages of a Mutual Currency is now online in the Libertarian Labyrinth. This is the text issued during the Panic of 1857—at […]

William B. Greene’s 1850 “Mutual Banking”

December 1, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

By 1850, the year William Batchelder Greene turned 31 and retired from the ministry, he had written, in one form or another, nearly all of his major works. He lived until 1878, and was active […]

Sarah Orne Jewett Text Project

November 26, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

In the course of doing some research on Bessie Greene, I ran across the excellent Sarah Orne Jewett Text Project. The archive contains a large number of Jewett’s texts, from Country of the Pointed Firs […]

William B. Greene, Equality (1849)

November 26, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve finally got Equality, the first of Greene’s mutual banking books online. This is the 1849 work largely based on those still-elusive Worcester Palladium articles. Here’s the index: EQUALITY, NO. 1. The Banking System The […]

A first go at Google Books

November 22, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

After reading all sorts of newspaper coverage about the conflict between publishers and Google over the intellectual property rights issues involved with the Google Books scanning project, I decided to see what the project amounted […]

Greene, Whittier, Brownson

November 15, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve posted two new biographical tidbits in the Libertarian Labyrinth. The first is from Annie Fields Author’s and Friends (1896), a collection of reminiscences. It tells the story of “the Bachiler eyes:” Old New England […]

Taking Proudhon (and controversy) out of “Mutual Banking”

November 14, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

A funny thing happened on the way to the modern edition of William B. Greene’s Mutual Banking. We know that with Mutual Banking, as was so often the case with Greene’s work, the editorial refinement […]

Lord Acton on William Batchelder Greene

November 9, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

I just read through Acton In America (Shepherdston: Patmos Press, 1979; S. W. Jackman, ed.). It’s a delightful, predictably opinionated read. It describes Lord Acton’s visit to the US in 1853, with entries covering New […]

Edward Kellogg in “The Word”

November 4, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

I was printing out a couple of issues of Ezra Heywood’s The Word, and ran across a listing of books available from the Heywoods’ Co-Operative Publishing Co. in 1873. William B. Greene’s then-newly-published The Blazing […]

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