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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... became acquainted with “ many principal People of the Province ” and made “ some very ingenious Acquaintance whose Conversation was of great Advantage to me . >> 7 It is easy to define the general concept of a printing network — an ...
... became acquainted with “ many principal People of the Province ” and made “ some very ingenious Acquaintance whose Conversation was of great Advantage to me . >> 7 It is easy to define the general concept of a printing network — an ...
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... became estranged. In it, Franklin cast himself as a multifaceted character, alternating among the roles of civic philanthropist, moral philosopher, and common tradesman on a pil- grimage through life. The latter role seems to have best ...
... became estranged. In it, Franklin cast himself as a multifaceted character, alternating among the roles of civic philanthropist, moral philosopher, and common tradesman on a pil- grimage through life. The latter role seems to have best ...
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... became convinced that the most persuasive method of encouraging goodness was a direct appeal to material wealth . Noting there is “ Nothing so likely to make a Man's Fortune as Virtue,” Franklin wrote The Art of Virtue and the Virtue of ...
... became convinced that the most persuasive method of encouraging goodness was a direct appeal to material wealth . Noting there is “ Nothing so likely to make a Man's Fortune as Virtue,” Franklin wrote The Art of Virtue and the Virtue of ...
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... became central to virtuous conduct, for he doubted people could be charitable without financial security. As “Poor Richard,” he wrote, “it is hard for an empty Sack to stand upright.” Some- times, Franklin was pessimistic about people's ...
... became central to virtuous conduct, for he doubted people could be charitable without financial security. As “Poor Richard,” he wrote, “it is hard for an empty Sack to stand upright.” Some- times, Franklin was pessimistic about people's ...
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... became the foundation upon which Franklin constructed a printing network that grew to be the largest, most powerful, prominent, and geographically extensive of the early American printing organizations. Composed of Franklin's business ...
... became the foundation upon which Franklin constructed a printing network that grew to be the largest, most powerful, prominent, and geographically extensive of the early American printing organizations. Composed of Franklin's business ...
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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