A Companion To Benjamin Franklin

Author : Carla Mulford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139828123

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The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Franklin by Carla Mulford Pdf

Comprehensive and accessible, this Companion addresses several well-known themes in the study of Franklin and his writings, while also showing Franklin in conversation with his British and European counterparts in science, philosophy, and social theory. Specially commissioned chapters, written by scholars well-known in their respective fields, examine Franklin's writings and his life with a new sophistication, placing Franklin in his cultural milieu while revealing the complexities of his intellectual, literary, social, and political views. Individual chapters take up several traditional topics, such as Franklin and the American dream, Franklin and capitalism, and Franklin's views of American national character. Other chapters delve into Franklin's library and his philosophical views on morality, religion, science, and the Enlightenment and explore his continuing influence in American culture. This Companion will be essential reading for students and scholars of American literature, history and culture.

Author : David Waldstreicher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Inventors
ISBN : 1782684271

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A Companion to Benjamin Franklin by David Waldstreicher Pdf

This companion provides a comprehensive survey of the life, work and legacy of Benjamin Franklin - the oldest, most distinctive, and multifaceted of the founders. Includes contributions from across a range of academic disciplines - Combines traditional and cutting-edge scholarship, from accomplished and emerging experts in the field - Pays special attention to the American Revolution, the Enlightenment, journalism, colonial American society, and themes of race, class, and gender - Places Franklin in the context of recent work in political theory, American Studies, American literature, material culture studies, popular culture, and international relations.

Author : Mary Pope Osborne,Natalie Pope Boyce
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781984893192

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Benjamin Franklin by Mary Pope Osborne,Natalie Pope Boyce Pdf

Track the facts about the great printer, inventor, and Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin! When Jack and Annie came back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #32: To the Future, Ben Franklin! they had lots of questions. What was Ben Franklin's first job? How did a kite teach him about electricity? What are some of Ben's most famous inventions? Why did he have so many nicknames? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Jack and Annie track the facts about Benjamin Franklin. Filled with up-to-date information, photographs, illustrations, and fun tidbits from Jack and Annie, the Fact Trackers are the perfect way for kids to find out more about the topics they discover in their favorite Magic Tree House adventures. Did you know that there's a Magic Tree House book for every kid? Magic Tree House: Adventures with Jack and Annie, perfect for readers who are just beginning chapter books Merlin Missions: More challenging adventures for the experienced reader Fact Trackers: Nonfiction companions to your favorite Magic Tree House adventures

Author : David Waldstreicher
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781444342130

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A Companion to Benjamin Franklin by David Waldstreicher Pdf

This companion provides a comprehensive survey of the life, work and legacy of Benjamin Franklin - the oldest, most distinctive, and multifaceted of the founders. Includes contributions from across a range of academic disciplines Combines traditional and cutting-edge scholarship, from accomplished and emerging experts in the field Pays special attention to the American Revolution, the Enlightenment, journalism, colonial American society, and themes of race, class, and gender Places Franklin in the context of recent work in political theory, American Studies, American literature, material culture studies, popular culture, and international relations

Author : Douglas Anderson
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421406138

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The Unfinished Life of Benjamin Franklin by Douglas Anderson Pdf

Benjamin Franklin wrote his posthumously published memoir—a model of the genre—in several pieces and in different temporal and physical places. Douglas Anderson’s study of this work reveals the famed inventor as a literary adept whose approach to autobiographical narrative was as innovative and radical as the inventions and political thought for which he is renowned. Franklin never completed his autobiography, choosing instead to immerse his reader in the formal and textual atmosphere of a deliberately “unfinished” life. Taking this decision on Franklin’s part as a starting point, Anderson treats the memoir as a subtle and rewarding reading lesson, independent of the famous life that it dramatizes but closely linked to the work of predecessors and successors like John Bunyan and Alexis de Tocqueville, whose books help illuminate Franklin’s complex imagination. Anderson shows that Franklin’s incomplete story exploits the disorderly and disruptive state of a lived life, as opposed to striving for the meticulous finish of standard memoirs, biographies, and histories. In presenting Franklin’s autobiography as an exemplary formal experiment in an era that its author once called the Age of Experiments, The Unfinished Life of Benjamin Franklin veers away from the familiar practices of traditional biographers, viewing history through the lens of literary imagination rather than the other way around. Anderson’s carefully considered work makes a persuasive case for revisiting this celebrated book with a keener appreciation for the subtlety and beauty of Franklin’s performance.

Author : Mary Pope Osborne,Natalie Pope Boyce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : JNF007020
ISBN : 1518274560

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Benjamin Franklin by Mary Pope Osborne,Natalie Pope Boyce Pdf

Author : Jennifer Durham Bass
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015040034434

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Benjamin Franklin, a Biographical Companion by Jennifer Durham Bass Pdf

Now, for the first time, Benjamin Franklin's life is examined in an encyclopedia designed for ease of use. The entries in this comprehensive volume cover writings, people, events, and interests. Each entry thoroughly describes and defines the topic and places it in its historical context. Cross-references to related topics and suggestions for further reading appear after each entry. Readers will also find a chronology of major events in Franklin's life and career from 1706 to 1790, selected writings, a bibliography, and a thorough subject index. Benjamin Franklin: A Biographical Companion is an invaluable and compelling reference work for high school, college, and general readers interested in studying Benjamin Franklin and eighteenth-century America.

Author : Paul E. Kerry,Matthew S. Holland
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611470291

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Benjamin Franklin's Intellectual World by Paul E. Kerry,Matthew S. Holland Pdf

This volume attempts to throw fresh light on two areas of Benjamin Franklin’s intellectual world, namely: his self-fashioning and his political thought. It is an odd thing that for all of Franklin’s voluminous writings—a fantastically well-documented correspondence over many years, scientific treatises that made his name amongst the brightest minds of Europe, newspaper articles, satires, and of course his signature on the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution—and yet scholars debate how to get at his political thought, indeed, if he had any political philosophy at all. It could be argued, that he is perhaps the American Founder most closely associated with the Enlightenment. Similarly, for a man who left so much evidence about his life as a printer, bookseller, postmaster, inventor, diplomat, politician, scientist, among other professions, one who wrote an autobiography that has become a piece of American national literature and, indeed, a contribution to world culture, the question of who Ben Franklin continues to engage scholars and those who read about his life. His identity seems so stable that we associate it with certain virtues that apply to the way we live our lives, time management, for example. The image of the stable figure of Franklin is applied to create a sense of trust in everything from financial institutions to plumbers. His constant drive to improve and fashion himself reveal, however, a man whose identity was not static and fixed, but was focused on growth, on bettering his understanding of himself and the world he lived in and attempted to influence and improve.

Author : Carla J. Mulford,Carla Mulford
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199384198

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Benjamin Franklin and the Ends of Empire by Carla J. Mulford,Carla Mulford Pdf

Drawing from Benjamin Franklin's published and unpublished papers, including letters, notes, and marginalia, Benjamin Franklin and the Ends of Empire examines how the early modern liberalism of Franklin's youthful intellectual life helped foster his vision of independence from Britain that became his hallmark achievement. In the early chapters, Carla Mulford explores the impact of Franklin's family history - especially their difficult times during the English Civil War - on Franklin's intellectual life and his personal and political goals. The book's middle chapters show how Franklin's fascination with British imperial strategy grew from his own analyses of the financial, environmental, and commercial potential of North America. Franklin's involvement in Pennsylvania's politics led him to devise strategies for monetary stability, intercolonial trade, Indian affairs, and imperial defense that would have assisted the British Empire in its effort to take over the world. When Franklin realized that the goals of British ministers were to subordinate colonists in a system that assisted the lives of Britons in England but undermined the wellbeing of North Americans, he began to criticize the goals of British imperialism. Mulford argues that Franklin's turn away from the British Empire began in the 1750s - not the 1770s, as most historians have suggested - and occurred as a result of Franklin's perceptive analyses of what the British Empire was doing not just in the American colonies but in Ireland and India. In the last chapters, Mulford reveals how Franklin ultimately grew restive, formed alliances with French intellectuals and the court of France, and condemned the actions of the British Empire and imperial politicians. As a whole, Mulford's book provides a fresh reading of a much-admired founding father, suggesting how Franklin's conception of the freedoms espoused in England's ages old Magna Carta could be realized in the political life of the new American nation.

Author : Mary Pope Osborne,Natalie Pope Boyce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1536456683

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Benjamin Franklin by Mary Pope Osborne,Natalie Pope Boyce Pdf

When Jack and Annie came back from their adventure in To the Future, Ben Franklin! they had lots of questions. What was Ben Franklin's first job? How did a kite teach him about electricity? What are some of Ben's most famous inventions? Why did he ha

Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Statesmen
ISBN : OCLC:978229335

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin Pdf

Author : George Fisher (Accomptant)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1810
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018414285

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The Instructor; Or Young Man's Best Companion ... The Thirtieth Edition, Corrected and Improved Throughout by George Fisher (Accomptant) Pdf

Author : Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780375894541

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Winter of the Ice Wizard by Mary Pope Osborne Pdf

The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system! Merlin the magician and Morgan le Fay have disappeared, and in order to find them, Jack and Annie journey with their friends Teddy and Kathleen to the Land-Behind-the-Clouds, a frozen kingdom of ice and snow. There they must overcome their fears and solve the Ice Wizard's riddle, because if Jack and Annie don't complete their mission in time, Merlin and Morgan will disappear forever! Formerly numbered as Magic Tree House #32, the title of this book is now Magic Tree House Merlin Mission #4: Winter of the Ice Wizard. Did you know that there’s a Magic Tree House book for every kid? Magic Tree House: Adventures with Jack and Annie, perfect for readers who are just beginning chapter books Merlin Missions: More challenging adventures for the experienced reader Super Edition: A longer and more dangerous adventure Fact Trackers: Nonfiction companions to your favorite Magic Tree House adventures Have more fun with Jack and Annie at MagicTreeHouse.com!

Author : I. Bernard Cohen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674066596

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Benjamin Franklin's Science by I. Bernard Cohen Pdf

Examines the scientific work of Benjamin Franklin in fields ranging from heat to astronomy ; provides accounts of the theoretical backgroung of his science, the experiments he performed, and their influence throughout Europe and the U.S.

Author : Jerry Weinberger
Publisher : American Political Thought
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015061445360

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Benjamin Franklin Unmasked by Jerry Weinberger Pdf

"Taking the Autobiography as the key to Franklin's thought, Weinberger argues that previous assessments have not yet probed to the bottom of Ben's famous irony and elusiveness. While others take the self-portrait as an elder statesman's relaxed and playful retrospection, Weinberger unveils it as the window to Franklin's deepest reflections on God, virtue, justice, equality, natural rights, love, the good life, the modern technological project, and the place and limits of reason in politics and human experience. Along the way, Weinberger explores Franklin's ribald humor, usually ignored or toned down by historians and critics, and shows it to be charming - and philosophic.".