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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... town or county named for Franklin, owing in large measure to his being perceived as “the perfect civic leader” by settlers of interior lands in the late eighteenth century and throughout the nineteenth century.2 During the same period ...
... town or county named for Franklin, owing in large measure to his being perceived as “the perfect civic leader” by settlers of interior lands in the late eighteenth century and throughout the nineteenth century.2 During the same period ...
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... Town , and James Parker in New York , New Haven , Connecticut , and Woodbridge , New Jersey . Isaiah Thomas and others emulated this practice later in the century.52 As Franklin trained many early American printers in his own shop ...
... Town , and James Parker in New York , New Haven , Connecticut , and Woodbridge , New Jersey . Isaiah Thomas and others emulated this practice later in the century.52 As Franklin trained many early American printers in his own shop ...
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... Town , by going round & speaking to every Master , who accordingly refus'd to give me Work . ” 2 James's ability to prevent his brother from secur- ing work demonstrates the structural solidarity within the printing trade that later ...
... Town , by going round & speaking to every Master , who accordingly refus'd to give me Work . ” 2 James's ability to prevent his brother from secur- ing work demonstrates the structural solidarity within the printing trade that later ...
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... town , Franklin often visited Mrs. T , whom he esteemed as “ sensible & lively , & of most pleasing Conversation . ” Having become “ fond of her Company , and being at this time under no Religious Restraints , ” Franklin “ attempted ...
... town , Franklin often visited Mrs. T , whom he esteemed as “ sensible & lively , & of most pleasing Conversation . ” Having become “ fond of her Company , and being at this time under no Religious Restraints , ” Franklin “ attempted ...
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... Town is become almost an Hell upon Earth , a City full of Lies , and Murders , and Blasphemies , as far as Wishes and Speeches can render it so ; Satan seems to take a strange Possession of it . ” Mather fixed blame for Boston's turmoil ...
... Town is become almost an Hell upon Earth , a City full of Lies , and Murders , and Blasphemies , as far as Wishes and Speeches can render it so ; Satan seems to take a strange Possession of it . ” Mather fixed blame for Boston's turmoil ...
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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