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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... Gazette printer John Bradford, whose fellow Lexingtonians dubbed “The Benjamin Franklin of the West.” One Philadelphia newspaper noted in 1780, “The name of Franklin is sufficiently celebrated that one may glory in bearing it,” adding ...
... Gazette printer John Bradford, whose fellow Lexingtonians dubbed “The Benjamin Franklin of the West.” One Philadelphia newspaper noted in 1780, “The name of Franklin is sufficiently celebrated that one may glory in bearing it,” adding ...
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... Gazette , and those published by others to convey his ideology of virtue to the masses . In doing so , Franklin was employing one “ art ” to convey another . Printing had long been esteemed as an art , requiring special skills and ...
... Gazette , and those published by others to convey his ideology of virtue to the masses . In doing so , Franklin was employing one “ art ” to convey another . Printing had long been esteemed as an art , requiring special skills and ...
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... Gazette in the same educational man- ner , recalling , " I consider'd my Newspaper also as another Means of commu- nicating Instruction , & in that View frequently reprinted in it Extracts from the Spectator and other moral Writers ...
... Gazette in the same educational man- ner , recalling , " I consider'd my Newspaper also as another Means of commu- nicating Instruction , & in that View frequently reprinted in it Extracts from the Spectator and other moral Writers ...
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... Gazette, William Parks warned colonists that one of his runaways was adept at mak- ing and picking locks. Maryland Gazette printer Joseph Royle sought the re- turn of one apprentice, whom he described as “very thick, stoops much, and ...
... Gazette, William Parks warned colonists that one of his runaways was adept at mak- ing and picking locks. Maryland Gazette printer Joseph Royle sought the re- turn of one apprentice, whom he described as “very thick, stoops much, and ...
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... Gazette on December 24 , 1728. " I resented this , " Franklin recalled in his Auto- biography , " and to counteract them , as I could not yet begin our Paper , I wrote several Pieces of Entertainm [ en ] t for Bradford's Paper ” that ...
... Gazette on December 24 , 1728. " I resented this , " Franklin recalled in his Auto- biography , " and to counteract them , as I could not yet begin our Paper , I wrote several Pieces of Entertainm [ en ] t for Bradford's Paper ” that ...
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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