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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... newspapers,” he told his sister Jane. “You mention there being often something in them to do me honour.I am obliged to ... newspaper proclaimed in 1792 that Franklin “will shine with distinguished lustre in the page of history,” while a ...
... newspapers,” he told his sister Jane. “You mention there being often something in them to do me honour.I am obliged to ... newspaper proclaimed in 1792 that Franklin “will shine with distinguished lustre in the page of history,” while a ...
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... Newspaper also as another Means of communicating Instruction, & in that View frequently reprinted in it Extracts from the Spectator and other moral Writers, and sometimes publish'd little Pieces of my own,” which he had first auditioned ...
... Newspaper also as another Means of communicating Instruction, & in that View frequently reprinted in it Extracts from the Spectator and other moral Writers, and sometimes publish'd little Pieces of my own,” which he had first auditioned ...
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... Newspapers were, in fact, one of the chief agents of education in early America. Because of their pervasiveness, social prominence, relatively easy accessibility, and presentation of some of the most important thinking of the era, ...
... Newspapers were, in fact, one of the chief agents of education in early America. Because of their pervasiveness, social prominence, relatively easy accessibility, and presentation of some of the most important thinking of the era, ...
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... newspaper advertisement, Timothy announced, “The printer of this paper will take an apprentice, pro- vided he be well recommended.” In another he noted, “The printer of this paper wants a sober lad as an apprentice, who must be well ...
... newspaper advertisement, Timothy announced, “The printer of this paper will take an apprentice, pro- vided he be well recommended.” In another he noted, “The printer of this paper wants a sober lad as an apprentice, who must be well ...
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... newspaper to compete with Andrew Bradford's American Weekly Mercury, which Franklin regarded as “a paltry thing, wretchedly manag'd, no way entertaining.” The fact that such a newspaper was lucrative was additional 32 Benjamin ...
... newspaper to compete with Andrew Bradford's American Weekly Mercury, which Franklin regarded as “a paltry thing, wretchedly manag'd, no way entertaining.” The fact that such a newspaper was lucrative was additional 32 Benjamin ...
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 |
Renegade SecondGeneration Printers | 123 |
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Benjamin Franklin's Printing Network: Disseminating Virtue in Early America Ralph Frasca Limited preview - 2006 |
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