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Benjamin Franklin and the politics of improvement / Alan Houston.
Van Pelt Library E302.6.F8 H77 2008
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LIBRA E302.6.F8 H77 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Houston, Alan Craig, 1957- author.
- Series:
- Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
- The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790--Political and social views.
- Franklin, Benjamin.
- Political science.
- Statesmen--United States--Biography.
- Statesmen.
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
- Political and social views.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biography.
- Biographies
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 321 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press,
- 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.
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Map of Philadelphia, 1752 / Nicholas Scull and George Heap
- Map of British North America, 1750
- Map of the British Atlantic World, 1763
- Commerce
- Association
- Population
- Union
- Slavery.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-306) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300124477
- 0300124473
- OCLC:
- 213479993
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