Benjamin Franklin's Printing Network: Disseminating Virtue in Early America"Explores Benjamin Franklin's network of partnerships and business relationships with printers. His network altered practices in both European and American colonial printing trades by providing capital and political influence to set up working partnerships with James Parker, Francis Childs, Benjamin Mecom, Benjamin Franklin Bache, David Hall, Anthony Armbruster, and others"--Provided by publisher. |
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... numerous lengthy treatments of the subject. Consequently, the interesting stories of Franklin's apprenticeship in Boston, his service as a journeyman in London and Philadelphia , the British influences on his writing , vii Preface.
... numerous lengthy treatments of the subject. Consequently, the interesting stories of Franklin's apprenticeship in Boston, his service as a journeyman in London and Philadelphia , the British influences on his writing , vii Preface.
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Disseminating Virtue in Early America Ralph Frasca. and Philadelphia , the British influences on his writing , and his career as printer of the Pennsylvania Gazette are treated in a cursory manner , as are his numerous political posts ...
Disseminating Virtue in Early America Ralph Frasca. and Philadelphia , the British influences on his writing , and his career as printer of the Pennsylvania Gazette are treated in a cursory manner , as are his numerous political posts ...
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... the guise of his pseudonym “ The Busy - Body . ” Influenced by such British satirical journals as The Spectator , Franklin whimsically commented on social mores for Andrew Bradford's American 16 Benjamin Franklin's Printing Network.
... the guise of his pseudonym “ The Busy - Body . ” Influenced by such British satirical journals as The Spectator , Franklin whimsically commented on social mores for Andrew Bradford's American 16 Benjamin Franklin's Printing Network.
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... British Council for Trade received a petition in 1661 to stop “ the great abuse that is , dayly used , by forcible takeing up and spiriting of children , Apprentices , and ser- vants , and transporting them into Virginia , Barbadoes ...
... British Council for Trade received a petition in 1661 to stop “ the great abuse that is , dayly used , by forcible takeing up and spiriting of children , Apprentices , and ser- vants , and transporting them into Virginia , Barbadoes ...
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... British chancellor Edward Hyde that their conduct is “ altogither inconsis- tant with the charter & priviledges , which his ma [ jes ] ty hath been graciously pleased in his severall letters to promise not in the least to violate or in ...
... British chancellor Edward Hyde that their conduct is “ altogither inconsis- tant with the charter & priviledges , which his ma [ jes ] ty hath been graciously pleased in his severall letters to promise not in the least to violate or in ...
Contents
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Spreading Virtue to South Carolina | 64 |
Network Expansion from New York to the Caribbean | 78 |
The Political Imperative of the Pennsylvania German Partnerships | 98 |
Franklin Plants a Printer in His Native New England | 115 |
The Franklin Network and the Stamp Act | 138 |
Rebellion and Network Loyalties | 155 |
The Moral Reform of a Scurrilous Press | 168 |
God Humanity and Franklins Legacy | 192 |
Abbreviations | 209 |
Bibliography | 265 |
Index | 291 |
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Benjamin Franklin's Printing Network: Disseminating Virtue in Early America Ralph Frasca Limited preview - 2006 |
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