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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... noted, “So complex has this 'simple' man become in recent years that it is now difficult to say for certain what he had in mind in his supposedly straightforward autobiography and in his purportedly light bagatelles.”4 Franklin's dual ...
... noted, “So complex has this 'simple' man become in recent years that it is now difficult to say for certain what he had in mind in his supposedly straightforward autobiography and in his purportedly light bagatelles.”4 Franklin's dual ...
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... noted, printing “diffuses so general a light, augmenting with the growing day, and of so penetrating a nature” on public affairs “that arbitrary governments are likely to become more mild and reasonable, and to expire by degrees,giving ...
... noted, printing “diffuses so general a light, augmenting with the growing day, and of so penetrating a nature” on public affairs “that arbitrary governments are likely to become more mild and reasonable, and to expire by degrees,giving ...
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... noted in 1780,“The name of Franklin is sufficiently celebrated that one may glory in bearing it,” adding that the French were contending with the English for the right to claim “having given birth to 7 The Art of Virtue and the Virtue ...
... noted in 1780,“The name of Franklin is sufficiently celebrated that one may glory in bearing it,” adding that the French were contending with the English for the right to claim “having given birth to 7 The Art of Virtue and the Virtue ...
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... noted, “for as George Washington is remembered as the Father of our great Nation, Ben Franklin might well be the grandfather.”This was not the first time Franklin and Washington had been elevated to a special place of honor. As Thomas ...
... noted, “for as George Washington is remembered as the Father of our great Nation, Ben Franklin might well be the grandfather.”This was not the first time Franklin and Washington had been elevated to a special place of honor. As Thomas ...
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... noted. Adams feared his vital contributions to the American Revolution would be obscured by Franklin's larger-than-life image. Writing two weeks before Franklin's death that “The history of our Revolution will be one continued Lye from ...
... noted. Adams feared his vital contributions to the American Revolution would be obscured by Franklin's larger-than-life image. Writing two weeks before Franklin's death that “The history of our Revolution will be one continued Lye from ...
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 |
Benjamin Franklin's Printing Network: Disseminating Virtue in Early America Ralph Frasca No preview available - 2006 |
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