Benjamin Franklin and the politics of improvement:
This fascinating book explores Benjamin Franklin's social and political thought. Although Franklin is often considered "the first American," his intellectual world was cosmopolitan. An active participant in eighteenth-century Atlantic debates over the modern commercial republic, Frank...
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Yale University Press
2008
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| Summary: | This fascinating book explores Benjamin Franklin's social and political thought. Although Franklin is often considered "the first American," his intellectual world was cosmopolitan. An active participant in eighteenth-century Atlantic debates over the modern commercial republic, Franklin combined abstract analyses with practical proposals. Houston treats Franklin as shrewd, creative and engaged- a lively thinker who joined both learned controversies and political conflicts at home and abroad. -- From book cover. |
| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | XI, 321 S. Ill., Kt. |
| ISBN: | 9780300124477 |
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Autor: Houston, Alan Craig
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Contents
Acknowledgments Vll
Author s Note ix
Map of Philadelphia by
Nicholas Scull and George Heap, 1752 xii
Map of British North America, c. 1750 xiii
Map of the British Atlantic World,
c. 1763 xiv
Introduction 1
1. Commerce 22
2. Association 60
3. Population 106
4. Union 147
5. Slavery 200
Epilogue 217
Appendix: Franklin and Weber 225
Chronology 231
Notes 235
Glossary of Names 307
Index 313
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