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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... become in recent years that it is now diffi- cult to say for certain what he had in mind in his supposedly straightforward autobiography and in his purportedly light bagatelles.”4 Franklin's dual organizational and ideological ...
... become in recent years that it is now diffi- cult to say for certain what he had in mind in his supposedly straightforward autobiography and in his purportedly light bagatelles.”4 Franklin's dual organizational and ideological ...
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... become more mild and reasonable , and to expire by de- grees , giving place to more equitable forms . " These views were central to the emergence and eventual Constitutional guarantee of press freedom . That so many of Franklin's ...
... become more mild and reasonable , and to expire by de- grees , giving place to more equitable forms . " These views were central to the emergence and eventual Constitutional guarantee of press freedom . That so many of Franklin's ...
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... become one of the wealthiest men in the new nation , more than half a century removed from his plebeian origins , ar- tisans and mechanics quaffed toasts to Franklin's health and , beginning in 1790 , his memory , every Independence Day ...
... become one of the wealthiest men in the new nation , more than half a century removed from his plebeian origins , ar- tisans and mechanics quaffed toasts to Franklin's health and , beginning in 1790 , his memory , every Independence Day ...
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... become part of American folklore , such attacks notwithstanding , has much to do with the fact that Franklin , better than any other early American figure , carefully crafted a public image of himself during his own lifetime . His ...
... become part of American folklore , such attacks notwithstanding , has much to do with the fact that Franklin , better than any other early American figure , carefully crafted a public image of himself during his own lifetime . His ...
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... become more dili- gent, and thus more able to be useful and virtuous citizens.” Another hailed his efforts to “foster altruistic impulses and to channel selfish ones into useful activities.”14 More skeptical historians have read into it ...
... become more dili- gent, and thus more able to be useful and virtuous citizens.” Another hailed his efforts to “foster altruistic impulses and to channel selfish ones into useful activities.”14 More skeptical historians have read into it ...
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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