Benjamin Franklin's intellectual world/ by Paul E. Kerry and Matthew S. Holland.
Physical description:
xxii, 195 p. 23 cm.;
Bibliographic notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-183) and index.;
Author(s): KERRY, Paul E.;
Holland, Matthew Scott;
ISBN:
9781611470284 (hbk.;
Subjects: United States --Intellectual life --18th century.;
Franklin, Benjamin1706-1790 --Knowledge and learning.;
Franklin, Benjamin1706-1790 --Political and social views.;
Formatted contents notes:
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more" / Paul E. Kerry and Matthew S. Holland -- Franklin's masks: a play upon possibility / Michael Zuckerman -- Benjamin Franklin unmasked / Jerry Weinberger -- Early modern imperialism, traditions of liberalism, and Franklin's ends of empire / Carla Mulford -- Benjamin Franklin, the mysterious "Charles de Weissenstein," and Britain's failure to coax revolutionary Americans back into the empire / Neil L. York -- Benjamin Franklin, student of the Holy Roman Empire: his summer journey to Germany in 1766 and his interest in the empire's federal constitution / Jürgen Overhoff -- Benjamin Franklin and the leather apron men: the politics of class in eighteenth-century Philadelphia / Simon P. Newman -- Recasting Franklin as printer: a note on recent historiography / Doug Thomas -- Benjamin Franklin, Richard Price, and the division of sacred and secular in the age of revolutions / Benjamin E. Park -- Ben Franklin and Socrates / Lorraine Smith Pangle -- From Weimar, with love: Benjamin Franklin's influence on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's self-fashioning / Paul E. Kerry -- Afterword: Benjamin Franklin's material presence in a digital age and popular culture world / Roy E. Goodman.;
Publisher:
UK Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group , 2012.;
Call number: 973.3092 KER;
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