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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... Samuel Davies informed Franklin network printer John Holt in 1761 , upon submitting a religious sermon for publica- tion . The practice of capitalizing nouns faded late in the century , however . “ This Method has , by the Fancy of ...
... Samuel Davies informed Franklin network printer John Holt in 1761 , upon submitting a religious sermon for publica- tion . The practice of capitalizing nouns faded late in the century , however . “ This Method has , by the Fancy of ...
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... Samuel Keimer served as a vainglorious bum- bler, businessmen William Coleman and Robert Grace surfaced as benefac- tors, and assorted “low women” took turns playing the siren, with Deborah Read as the true love. The hero in this epic ...
... Samuel Keimer served as a vainglorious bum- bler, businessmen William Coleman and Robert Grace surfaced as benefac- tors, and assorted “low women” took turns playing the siren, with Deborah Read as the true love. The hero in this epic ...
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... Samuel Franklin , and instead place him in the printing trade with brother James Franklin , who agreed not to charge a fee . Samuel Franklin's “ Expectations of a Fee with me displeasing my Father , I was taken home again , ” Benjamin ...
... Samuel Franklin , and instead place him in the printing trade with brother James Franklin , who agreed not to charge a fee . Samuel Franklin's “ Expectations of a Fee with me displeasing my Father , I was taken home again , ” Benjamin ...
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... Samuel Keimer full - time . 22 Had he been in England instead of America , Franklin would not have suc- ceeded in billing himself as a journeyman. England's eighteenth-century guild 26 Benjamin Franklin's Printing Network.
... Samuel Keimer full - time . 22 Had he been in England instead of America , Franklin would not have suc- ceeded in billing himself as a journeyman. England's eighteenth-century guild 26 Benjamin Franklin's Printing Network.
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... Samuel Palmer and then John Watts . While employed in their shops , Franklin became disenchanted with the behavior and rituals of the apprentices and journeymen with whom he worked.28 For example , the businesslike Franklin deplored ...
... Samuel Palmer and then John Watts . While employed in their shops , Franklin became disenchanted with the behavior and rituals of the apprentices and journeymen with whom he worked.28 For example , the businesslike Franklin deplored ...
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 |
Benjamin Franklin's Printing Network: Disseminating Virtue in Early America Ralph Frasca No preview available - 2006 |
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Advertiser American Weekly Mercury Andrew Bradford Antigua apprentice apprenticeship April Autobiography Benjamin Franklin Bache BF to Jane BF to Joseph BF to Peter BF to William Boston Bradford British Cadwallader Colden character Charles Town Colonial colonists Connecticut David Hall December editorial eighteenth-century England essays father February Francis Childs Franklin network Franklin wrote Galloway German Haven History of Printing ibid Isaiah Thomas James Parker Jane Mecom January Jared Ingersoll John Holt Joseph Galloway journalism journeyman JP to BF June Keimer later Liberty London moral New-York Gazette newspaper November October pamphlet Papers partnership Pennsylvania Gazette Peter Collinson Peter Timothy Philadelphia political Poor Richard printers printing house Printing in America printing network published readers Richard Bache Samuel Sauer September September 14 Smith Society South Carolina South-Carolina Gazette Stamp Act trade University Press virtue virtuous Weyman Whitmarsh William Goddard William Strahan WrBF writings York