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J. K. Ingalls, “Social Wealth”

February 19, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

At long last, Joshua King Ingalls’ Social Wealth, is available online, in a (largely) searchable pdf edition. (The text will follow soon.) At 320 pages, the file is a little over 16 megs, but well […]

My NaNoWriMo

December 3, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Well, I’ll admit with no regrets that I did not complete the 50,000 words of fiction necessary to “win” during November’s National Novel Writing Month. Some other realities intervened. I wrote a little over 25,000 […]

Godek Gardwell (Edward Kellogg) to the Merchants’ Magazine

November 24, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Godek Gardwell, “Labor and Other Capital” The Merchants’ Magazine and Commercial Review, 18, 1 (January 1848), 65. Art. VIII.—LABOR AND OTHER CAPITAL:THE RIGHTS OF EACH SECURED, AND THE WRONGS TO BOTH ERADICATED. Freeman Hunt, Esq.—Dear […]

Proudhon and Tucker get psychedelic!

November 14, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Wow, man! Tucker’s edition of Proudhon’s The Malthusians, in a very special digital edition. Google Books raises the Art of Screwing Up to the level of, well, ART.

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 […]

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.

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 […]

Fools rush in

September 25, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

As some of you know, I’ve been playing with an alternate-history project for awhile. The Distributive Passions is “Fourierist speculative fiction, with a mutualist message,” or something like that. I’m treating it as a place […]

A few new William B. Greene citations

September 13, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Thanks to Brady Campbell, who did a little research legwork at the American Antiquarian Society, we have a better idea about William B. Greene’s contributions the Worcester Palladium. Here are his notes: Equality – – […]