Comments and Studies on Josiah Warren: A Bibliography

ANDREWS, Stephen Pearl (1812-1886)WARREN, Josiah* bibliographieBLACKER, Peter I.UNDERHILL, Edward F.ORVIS, JohnCONWAY, Moncure D.

Primary Sources

1821
"Weekly Summary," The Plough Boy, and Journal of the Board of Agriculture, 2, 52 (May 26, 1821), 415.
1827
A Poem on Equitable Commerce, The New Harmony Gazette, (December, 1827)

1830

"A Working Man," [on equal exchange of labor], New York Sentinel and Working Man’s Advocate, 1, 51 (August, 11, 1830), 1.
E. C. [Communication], The Free Enquirer, 2, 42 (August 14, 1830), 332.
"Equal Exchange of Labor," New York Sentinel and Working Man’s Advocate, 1, 44 (July 17, 1830), 1.
1833
State Of Things in 1833 [on the Peaceful Revolutionist] Reformer and Christian, 13, 3 (Apr 1833), 34.

1849

"Lecture by Josiah Warren," Boston Investigator, 18, 37 (January 17, 1849), 3.
"The People’s Sunday Meeting," Boston Investigator, 18, 37 (January 17, 1849), 3.
— -, Boston Investigator, 18, 38 (January 24, 1849), 3.
— -, Boston Investigator, 18, 39 (January 31, 1849), 3.
— -, Boston Investigator, 18, 40 (February 7, 1849), 3.
— -, Boston Investigator, 18, 41 (February 14, 1849), 3.
— -, Boston Investigator, 18, 42 (February 21, 1849), 3.
"Mr. Warren’s Lecture," Boston Investigator, 18, 38 (January 24, 1849), 3.
Notice, Boston Investigator, 18, 39 (January 24, 1849), 3.
Notice,Boston Investigator, 18, 40 (February 7, 1849), 3.
Notice, Boston Investigator, 18, 41 (February 14, 1849), 3.
Notice, Boston Investigator, 18, 42 (February 21, 1849), 3.
"People’s Sunday Meeting," Boston Investigator, 18, 43 (February 28, 1849), 3.
"The People’s Sunday Meeting," Boston Investigator, 18, 43 (February 28, 1849), 3.
— -, Boston Investigator, 18, 46 (March 21, 1849), 3.
"People’s Sunday Meeting," Boston Investigator, 18, 44 (March 7, 1849), 3.
"Equitable Commerce," Boston Investigator, 18, 44 (March 7, 1849), 3.
"The People’s Sunday Meeting," Boston Investigator, 18, 44 (March 7, 1849), 3.
Advertisement,Boston Investigator, 18, 44 (March 7, 1849), 3.
— -, Boston Investigator, 18, 45 (March 14, 1849), 3.
"People’s Sunday Meeting," Boston Investigator, 18, 45 (March 14, 1849), 3.
"People’s Sunday Meeting," Boston Investigator, 18, 46 (March 21, 1849), 3.
[notice], Pittsburgh (Pa.,) Boston Investigator, May?, 1849. [reprinted in next entry]
Notice,Boston Investigator, 19, 2 (May 16, 1849), 2.

Notice of Josiah Warren’s lard-lamp patent</blockquote "Josiah Warren—and ’R. H.’," Boston Investigator, 19, 12 (July 25, 1849), 2. Notice, Boston Investigator, 19, 21 (September 25, 1849), 3. List of New Publications Received, The Massachusetts Quarterly Review, 9 (December 1849), 158. [Equitable commerce] 1850 M. P. S., "A Letter from Utopia," Boston Investigator, 19, 52 (May 1, 1850), 3. "Improvement in Printing," Scientific American, 5, 40 (Jun 22, 1850), 316. 1851 "Literary," The Independent, 3, 111 (January 16, 1851), 16. 1852 Peter I. Blacker, "Equitable Villages," Boston Investigator, 21, 38 (January 21, 1852), 4. [note: from The Commonweal] "’Modern Times’—A New City," Boston Investigator, 22, 9 (June 30, 1852), 4. [note: from The New York Sunday Times] G., "Communism the Only Alternative," The Circular, 1, 39 (August 4, 1852), 154. "Publications," The Massachusetts Teacher, 5, 10 (October 1852), 319. Peter I. Blacker, "American Socialism," Boston Investigator, 22, 25 (October 20, 1852), 1. 1853 Peter I. Blacker, "An Outline of Equitable Commerce," Boston Investigator, 22, 36 (January 5, 1853), 1. ["card" relating to Modern Times], New York Tribune, April 4, 1853. Notice, The Circular, 2, 41 (April 6, 1853), 162.
  • ["card" relating to Modern Times], New York Tribune, April 4, 1853.
    Edward F. Underhill, "Cost the Limit of Price," Liberator, 23, 41 (October 14, 1853), 164.
    Peter I. Blacker, "The Golden Rule," Boston Investigator, 23, 26 (October 26, 1853), 3.
    "To Correspondents," "J. T.," Texas.— A letter addressed to Mr. Warren at Modern Times, L. I., Thompson’s Station, N. Y., would be sure to reach him.
    1854
    "As Usual!" Boston Investigator, 23, 41 (February 8, 1854), 2.
    "Paine Celebration at Modern Times, N. Y.," Boston Investigator, 23, 45 (March 8, 1854), 1.
    Peter I. Blacker, "Individualism Versus Institutionalism," Boston Investigator, 24, 16 (August 16, 1854), 2.
    1855
    Peter I. Blacker, "The Government Mania," Boston Investigator, 25, 1 (May 2, 1855), 2.
    Peter I. Blacker, "Submission to the Will of the Majority," Boston Investigator, 25, 9 (June 27, 1855), 2.
    Peter I. Blacker, "Secret Societies," Boston Investigator, 25, 10 (July 4, 1855), 1.
    Common Sense, "The Sovereignty of the Individual," Boston Investigator, 25, 17 (August 22, 1855), 2.
    "Equitable Commerce," Liberator, 25, 37 (September 14, 1855), 146.
    John Orvis, "Equitable Commerce Association," Liberator, 25, 38 (September 21, 1855), 150.
    John Orvis, " Equitable Commerce," Liberator, 25, 39 (September 28, 1855), 154.
    "Free Love," The United States Magazine of Science, Art, Manufactures, Agriculture, Commerce and Trade, 22, 6 (November 1855), 204.

    1856

    William Pare, Equitable Commerce as Practised in the equity villages of the United States of North America: a paper read before the Statistical Section of the British Association at Glasgow, September, 1855, [London] : printed by Harrison and Sons, 1856.
    1865
    Moncure D. Conway, "Modern Times, New York," Littell’s Living Age, 30, 1106 (Aug 12, 1865), 244.

    Studies

     ARIELI, Yehoshua. « Individualism Turns Anarchism - Josiah Warren », in: Individualism and
    Nationalism in American Ideology
    , Cambridge, Harvard, 1964, pp. 289-296.
     BAILIE, William. Josiah Warren: The First American Anarchist, Boston, Small, Maynard & Co., 1906.
     id. "Josiah Warren," in George B. Lockwood, The New Harmony Movement, 1905. Reprint New York: Aug. M. Kelley, 1970, pp. 294-306.

    Written with the assistance of notes by Gorge Warren, one of Josiah’s sons.


     BARCLAY, Harold. "Josiah Warren: The Incompleat Anarchist," Anarchy, London. viii (March 1968) 90-96.

    Criticizes Warren’s later ideas.


     CRESS, Kit Firth, « Communitarian Connections : Josiah Warren, Robert Smith and Peter Kaufman », Communal Societies (1987) 7: 67-81.
     DORFMAN, Joseph. "The Philosophical Anarchists: Josiah Warren, Stephen Pearl Andrews," in The Economic Mind in America. New York: Viking, 1946, vol. II pp. 671-678; see also "Philosophical Anarhism", vol. III pp. 35-42.
     HALL, Bowman N. “The Economic Ideas of Josiah Warren, First American Anarchist.” In History of Political Economy 6:1 (1974): 95–108.
     MARTIN, James J. "American Prophets. I: Josiah Warren," Liberation II (Dec. 1957) 10-14.
     PICKERING, John. Criticism on Warren’s System of Equitable Exchange. 1843
     id. The working man’s political economy: founded upon the principle of immutable justice and the inalienable rights of man; designed for the promotor of national reform. Cincinnati : Stereotyped in Warren’s new patent method by Thomas Varney, 1847. Chapter 19 "Equitable Commerce"
     WARREN, George [Josiah Warren’s son]. Undated account

    Original manuscript at Labadie Collection