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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... The name of Franklin is sufficiently celebrated that one may glory in bearing it,” adding that the French were contending with the English for the right to claim “having given birth to 7 The Art of Virtue and the Virtue of the Art.
... The name of Franklin is sufficiently celebrated that one may glory in bearing it,” adding that the French were contending with the English for the right to claim “having given birth to 7 The Art of Virtue and the Virtue of the Art.
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Disseminating Virtue in Early America Ralph Frasca. English for the right to claim “having given birth to the ancestors of a man who has rendered that name so famous.”3 In the Revolution and the new republic it spawned, Franklin ...
Disseminating Virtue in Early America Ralph Frasca. English for the right to claim “having given birth to the ancestors of a man who has rendered that name so famous.”3 In the Revolution and the new republic it spawned, Franklin ...
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... English satanic cult, the “Hell-Fire Club.” Referring to James, Benjamin, and other members of the Hell-Fire Club, the clergyman noted in his diary, “warnings are to be given unto the wicked Printer, and his Accomplices, who every week ...
... English satanic cult, the “Hell-Fire Club.” Referring to James, Benjamin, and other members of the Hell-Fire Club, the clergyman noted in his diary, “warnings are to be given unto the wicked Printer, and his Accomplices, who every week ...
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... English rule. In 1662, two years after the restoration of the monarchy, Parliament passed another in a series of licensing acts that limited the number of printers and restricted their right and ability to print.7 Intent on controlling ...
... English rule. In 1662, two years after the restoration of the monarchy, Parliament passed another in a series of licensing acts that limited the number of printers and restricted their right and ability to print.7 Intent on controlling ...
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... cut down while still alive,and then castrated, disemboweled, quartered, and finally beheaded. Algernon Sidney also paid with his life twenty years later when English officials found 50 Benjamin Franklin's Printing Network.
... cut down while still alive,and then castrated, disemboweled, quartered, and finally beheaded. Algernon Sidney also paid with his life twenty years later when English officials found 50 Benjamin Franklin's Printing Network.
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 |
Renegade SecondGeneration Printers | 123 |
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