Abstract The struggle for religious liberty in Canterbury, CT, was fought over property. When the Great Awakening divided church against town, evangelical “Separates” withdrew from establishment and launched a campaign ecclesiastical taxation, using concepts of conscience, stewardship, property rights to defend estates create voluntary economy.

Recent research has questioned whether the European Black Death of 1347-1351 could possibly have been caused by the bubonic plague bacillus Yersinia pestis, as has been assumed for over a century. Central to the arguments both for and against involvement of Y. pestis has been a comparison of the temporal dynamics observed in confirmed outbreaks of bubonic plague in early-20th-century India, ver...