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John Locke's Two Treatises of Government , with its suggestions that Indigenous peoples have failed to invest labor into their lands and to develop government by law, has long been recognized as justifying the dispossession of the nations of Turtle Island. Locke was, however, an avid reader of travel books, and his notes on Franciscan friar Gabriel Sagard's Histoire du Canada (1636), which describes life among the Wendat, show that Locke was open to learning from Indigenous cultures, and even imagined writing a utopia based on Wendat social and political life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An introduction is presented in which the editor discuses several reports published within issue on topics related to "The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe in which he narrates the successful replication of English trades in the wilderness.

An introduction to the journal is presented in which the editor discusses various reports published within the issue including one by Constance Lacroix about Jane Barker, a Tory, one by Katherine Binhammer about the book "The History of Emily Montagu," and one by Chloe Wigston Smith about the role of urban workers during the Enlightenment.