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Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing Inc.
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422373169
Author : Anonim
Publisher : The Library Company of Phil
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 142235928X
Author : Jay Robert Stiefel
Publisher : The Library Company of Phil
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Clocks and watches
ISBN : 1422362760
Author : Kevin J. Hayes,Isabelle Bour
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781587299834
In his time Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) was the most famous American in the world. Even those personally unacquainted with the man knew him as the author of Poor Richard’s Almanack, as a pioneer in the study of electricity and a major figure in the American Enlightenment, as the creator of such life-changing innovations as the lightning rod and America’s first circulating library, and as a leader of the American Revolution. His friends also knew him as a brilliant conversationalist, a great wit, an intellectual filled with curiosity, and most of all a master anecdotist whose vast store of knowledge complemented his conversational skills. In Franklin in His Own Time, by reprinting the original documents in which those anecdotes occur, Kevin Hayes and Isabelle Bour restore those oft-told stories to their cultural contexts to create a comprehensive narrative of his life and work. The thirty-five recollections gathered in Franklin in His Own Time form an animated, collaborative biography designed to provide a multitude of perspectives on the “First American.” Opening with an account by botanist Peter Kalm showing that Franklin was doing all he could to encourage the development of science in North America, it includes on-the-spot impressions from Daniel Fisher’s diary, the earliest surviving interview with Franklin, recollections from James Madison and Abigail Adams, Manasseh Cutler’s detailed description of the library at Franklin Court, and extracts from Alexander Hamilton’s unvarnished Minutes of the Tuesday Club. Franklin’s political missions to Great Britain and France, where he took full advantage of rich social and intellectual opportunities, are a source of many reminiscences, some published here in new translations. Genuine memories from such old friends as Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, as opposed to memories influenced by the Autobiography, clarify Franklin’s reputation. Robert Carr may have been the last remaining person who knew Franklin personally, and thus his recollections are particularly significant. Each entry is introduced by a headnote that places the selection in its historical and cultural contexts; explanatory notes provide information about people and places; and the editors’ comprehensive introduction and chronology detail Franklin’s eventful life. Dozens of lively primary sources published incrementally over more than a hundred years illustrate the complexity of the man, his mind, and his mannerisms in a way that no single biographer could.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : The Library Company of Phil
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422373142
Author : Anonim
Publisher : The Library Company of Phil
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422366626
Author : Anonim
Publisher : The Library Company of Phil
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422373134
Author : Karen A. Weyler
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820343235
Standing outside elite or even middling circles, outsiders who were marginalized by limitations on their freedom and their need to labor for a living had a unique grasp on the profoundly social nature of print and its power to influence public opinion. In Empowering Words, Karen A. Weyler explores how outsiders used ephemeral formats such as broadsides, pamphlets, and newspapers to publish poetry, captivity narratives, formal addresses, and other genres with wide appeal in early America. To gain access to print, outsiders collaborated with amanuenses and editors, inserted their stories into popular genres and cheap media, tapped into existing social and religious networks, and sought sponsors and patrons. They wrote individually, collaboratively, and even corporately, but writing for them was almost always an act of connection. Disparate levels of literacy did not necessarily entail subordination on the part of the lessliterate collaborator. Even the minimally literate and the illiterate understood the potential for print to be life changing, and outsiders shrewdly employed strategies to assert themselves within collaborative dynamics. Empowering Words covers an array of outsiders including artisans; the minimally literate; the poor, indentured, or enslaved; and racial minorities. By focusing not only on New England, the traditional stronghold of early American literacy, but also on southern towns such as Williamsburg and Charleston, Weyler limns a more expansive map of early American authorship.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : The Library Company of Phil
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422373126
Author : Samuel Otter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 019974193X
In Philadelphia Stories, Samuel Otter finds literary value, historical significance, and political urgency in a sequence of texts written in and about Philadelphia between the Constitution and the Civil War. Historians such as Gary B. Nash and Julie Winch have chronicled the distinctive social and political space of early national Philadelphia. Yet while individual writers such as Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, and George Lippard have been linked to Philadelphia, no sustained attempt has been made to understand these figures, and many others, as writing in a tradition tied to the city's history. The site of William Penn's "Holy Experiment" in religious toleration and representative government and of national Declaration and Constitution, near the border between slavery and freedom, Philadelphia was home to one of the largest and most influential "free" African American communities in the United States. The city was seen by residents and observers as the laboratory for a social experiment with international consequences. Philadelphia would be the stage on which racial character would be tested and a possible future for the United States after slavery would be played out. It would be the arena in which various residents would or would not demonstrate their capacities to participate in the nation's civic and political life. Otter argues that the Philadelphia "experiment" (the term used in the nineteenth-century) produced a largely unacknowledged literary tradition of peculiar forms and intensities, in which verbal performance and social behavior assumed the weight of race and nation.
Author : Library Company of Philadelphia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112760389
"Americana, 1532-1700; preliminary short title list": 1934/35, p. 24-39.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : UOM:39015079683507
Author : Strobe Talbott
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815738244
The presidency of Donald Trump has wreaked havoc on American democracy, divided American society, unsettled foreign allies and partners, and heartened dictators around the world. The damage at home and abroad is likely to cast a long shadow into the future. Trump has also defiled the past, most notably America's origin and its soul. The Founders counted on their successors to protect and perfect their prodigy with its fundamental ideals, laws, and procedures. They also aspired to a code of personal morals and character. Paramount were honesty, rationality, empathy, and responsibility to the citizenry. These liberal, revolutionary criteria for public service and leadership derived from the European Enlightenment. The spirit of that movement and its American version is alien to Trump, and many of his predecessors would find him abhorrent and dangerous. Strobe Talbott tells that story from the vantage of the Age of Trump, bringing out the stark contrast between the 45th president and the first six—Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams, who were children of the Age of Reason. Amid myriad books on the Trump phenomenon in these dark days, Talbott shines a light on our history in hope that the Founders' legacy, now in peril, will be vindicated.
Author : Frank J. Webb
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770483644
Unjustly overlooked in its own time, Frank J. Webb’s novel of pre-Civil War Philadelphia weaves together action, humor, and social commentary. The Garies and Their Friends tells the story of two families struggling for different sorts of respectability: the Garies, a well-to-do interracial couple who relocate to Philadelphia from the plantation South in order to legalize their marriage, and their friends the Ellises, free black Philadelphians hoping to make the move from the working class into the bourgeoisie. Along the way the families confront racialized violence, melodramatic villainy, and sentimental reversals. Entertaining and fast-moving, the novel has a Dickensian mix of uncanny coincidence and interwoven personal experiences. The historical documents accompanying this Broadview Edition provide reviews of the novel along with extensive materials on slavery, the color line, and contemporary Philadelphia.
Author : Misty Krueger
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684482986
This important new collection explores representations of late seventeenth- through mid-nineteenth-century transatlantic women travelers across a range of historical and literary works. While at one time transatlantic studies concentrated predominantly on men’s travels, this volume highlights the resilience of women who ventured voluntarily and by force across the Atlantic—some seeking mobility, adventure, knowledge, wealth, and freedom, and others surviving subjugation, capture, and enslavement. The essays gathered here concern themselves with the fictional and the historical, national and geographic location, racial and ethnic identities, and the configuration of the transatlantic world in increasingly taught texts such as The Female American and The Woman of Colour, as well as less familiar material such as Merian’s writing on the insects of Surinam and Falconbridge’s travels to Sierra Leone. Intersectional in its approach, and with an afterword by Eve Tavor Bannet, this essential collection will prove indispensable as it provides fresh new perspectives on transatlantic texts and women’s travel therein across the long eighteenth century.