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Benjamin Franklin's intellectual world /

This volume contributes to the growing body of scholarship that seeks to trace the contours of certain aspects of Franklin's intellectual world and argues in fresh ways that Franklin was a thinker of profound depth. Several of the essays in this volume explore how Franklin's political and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kerry, Paul E., Holland, Matthew Scott, 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison : Lanham, Md. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more" / Paul E. Kerry and Matthew S. Holland
  • Franklin's masks : a play upon possibility / Michael Zuckerman
  • Benjamin Franklin unmasked / Jerry Weinberger
  • Early modern imperialism, traditions of liberalism, and Franklin's ends of empire / Carla Mulford
  • Benjamin Franklin, the mysterious "Charles de Weissenstein," and Britain's failure to coax revolutionary Americans back into the empire / Neil L. York
  • Benjamin Franklin, student of the Holy Roman Empire : his summer journey to Germany in 1766 and his interest in the Empire's federal constitution / Jürgen Overhoff
  • Benjamin Franklin and the leather apron men : the politics of class in eighteenth-century Philadelphia / Simon P. Newman
  • Recasting Franklin as printer : a note on recent historiography / Doug Thomas
  • Benjamin Franklin, Richard Price, and the division of sacred and secular in the age of revolutions / Benjamin E. Park
  • Ben Franklin and Socrates / Lorraine Smith Pangle
  • From Weimar, with love : Benjamin Franklin's influence on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's self-fashioning / Paul E. Kerry
  • Afterword: Benjamin Franklin's material presence in a digital age and popular culture world / Roy E. Goodman.