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Title Benjamin Franklin's intellectual world / [edited by] Paul E. Kerry and Matthew S. Holland.

Publication Info. Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, [2012]
2012

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Description 1 online resource (221 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-183) and index.
Contents "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 / Jurgen 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.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Knowledge and learning.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Political and social views.
United States -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Kerry, Paul E., editor.
Holland, Matthew Scott, 1966- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Benjamin Franklin's intellectual world. Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2012] xxii, 195 pages ; 24 cm 9781611470284 (DLC)10860003
ISBN 9781611470284 (alk. paper)
9781611470291 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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