Harvey Goldberg Lecture--Beginnings of Capitalism (in England)--1977--Revision

I have finished my third Harvey Goldberg lecture transcription: Beginnings of Capitalism (in England).

Original audio lecture (#41) is available at:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120511113937/http://brechtforum.org/harvey-goldberg-lectures

Audio link in the transcript may be out of date.

You can read it at:

Microsoft Word:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/106gnopx7L-taeTnZLFSKsKI_vlzZ50bj5Resb3XqaFE/edit

If you'd like an HTML file to work with, simply download the Word file as an HTML file and then open it in your browser

The transcription is annotated and contains two bibliographies at the end of the lecture.

 Dec. 22, 2014, I have revised the Word Document. I found the reference to the biographer of William Stumpe. It was J.W. Gough in a book called The Rise of the Entrepreneur.  It now appears as footnote #26 in the document. Footnote #22 (referring to William Stumpe) has been expanded to find other biographical sources for him. 

Goldberg mentioned "Stumpe's biographer," who I was pretty sure was named "Gough." But when I looked up Gough and Stumpe in WorldCat (the most powerful catalog lookup tool on the planet), I couldn't find a biography anywhere. So I thought I was incorrect about "Gough" and thus called the biographer's name "unintelligible" (an easy but unsatisfying solution to my problem). It wasn't until later that I thought to look in the periodical literature. Almost instantly I was able to find a review of Gough's book listed above that mentioned Stumpe. Presto, I found the book, the quote, and the footnote about the quote that mentioned it was a paraphrase from G.D. Ramsay's The Wiltshire Woolen Industry in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. The footnotes in these two books led me to Thomas Fuller's History of the Worthies of England (Vol. 3) and Canon Manley's "William Stumpe of Malmsbury" in Wiltshire Notes and Queries No. VIII. There lay much more biographical information on Stumpe, which you can now see. See  the above footnotes for more on all this.

Fuller and Manley are easy to find online. But I wouldn't have found them at all if not for Gough and Ramsay. And that is where the awesome power of a major university research library comes in. My university has one of the largest research libraries of any public university in the US. Having access to it is a great gift and privilege for me. Not only can I see how many sources Goldberg was into, but I can see the sources. The man's scope and breadth of reading was phenomenal. I've done three lectures so far and there is a semester's worth of reading in each lecture. Think about that the next time you take a university class.


I am trying an experiment with Google Docs. Supposedly you will be able to read the Word file. Google has changed some things with Google Docs since the last time I uploaded. Whether any of this will work for you is a mystery to me. Feedback would  be welcomed at:.

jbsolock1@gmail.com
Please put "Goldberg Lectures" in the subject line.

The Microsoft Word links, though appearing to be live, may not be. If single or double clicking on them doesn't work, save the file and use the links directly. Once you have a live, working Word document,  to get the links to work, just hit the CTRL key and  left click the mouse on the link simultaneously. Links that, in the future, might move or die, should be cut and pasted into the Wayback Machine at

http://archive.org

That is the best way to recover lost links at present. Each link was checked and worked at the time of release of this blog item.

I hope the transcription is legible to you.

Enjoy.

For exclusive links to all Goldberg transcriptions on this blog click "Goldberg" next to the "Labels" tag at the bottom of this item. The next transcription will be #42: Luther Wunzer [sic]. Wunzer is actually Thomas Muenzer.

BTW: Who's Harvey Goldberg, some of you might ask? See

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Goldberg

Harvey Goldberg--Anti-Private Property--1977

Here is my attempt at transcribing the Lecture Anti-Private Property.

Original audio lecture (#40) is available at:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120511113937/http://brechtforum.org/harvey-goldberg-lectures

 

Audio link in the transcript may be out of date.

You can read the transcription at:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0GaXGfixoCMY09VMzRvaUFlZ1E/edit?usp=sharing

This was a difficult transcription due to varying sound quality. It is an annotated transcription and has a bibliography at the end of it.

This is a Microsoft Word document that has been saved into Google Documents. The links, though appearing to be live, may not be. If clicking on them doesn't work, then down arrow to save the file, and either save it to use with live links later, or open as a Microsoft Word document in another window. Once you have a live, working Word document,  to get the links to work, just hit the CTRL key and  left click the mouse on the link simultaneously.

I hope the transcription is legible to you.

Enjoy.

For exclusive links to all Goldberg transcriptions on this blog click "Goldberg" next to the "Labels" tag at the bottom of this item. The next transcription will be #41. The Beginning of Capitalism." 

BTW: Who's Harvey Goldberg, some of you might ask? See

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Goldberg

Harvey Goldberg--Ideology of Private Property--1977

Here's my first shot. It's an annotated transcription I did some time ago of Harvey Goldberg's Lecture on the origins of private property.

Original audio lecture (#39) is available at:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120511113937/http://brechtforum.org/harvey-goldberg-lectures

Address in the transcript may be out of date. 

You can read it at:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0GaXGfixoCMZWtaa3Q5c2d3d1E/view?usp=sharing

This is a Microsoft Word document that has been saved into Google Documents. The links, though appearing to be live, may not be. I have discovered that if the internal links wrap around a line, they will not work from Google docs, as Google docs has inserted a line break, thereby breaking the URL. These URLs should work if you download the Word document and read it out of Word directly. Eventually I will put each URL on its own line. (8-Jul.-2013).  If clicking on them doesn't work, then down arrow to save the file, and either save it to use with live links later, or open as a Microsoft Word document in another window. Once you have a live, working Word document,  to get the links to work, just hit the CTRL key and  left click the mouse on the link simultaneously.
 
Note that the links in the footnotes were put in over a year ago. Most of them work. For the ones that don't:

Cut them out of the browser (you won't be able to out of the Word document) and go to:

http://archive.org

remove the http;// from the "Wayback Machine" and paste the link in there. Find a date that is circled, and click on it. It will point correctly to the link that has since been changed. I know. I checked.

Original audio file (#39) is available at:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120511113937/http://brechtforum.org/harvey-goldberg-lectures

Hope the transcription is legible to you. Enjoy.

BTW: Who's Harvey Goldberg, some of you might ask? See

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Goldberg