History's Locomotives: Revolutions and the Making of the Modern WorldYale University Press, 1. jaan 2006 - 384 pages This engaging book reveals Benjamin Franklin's human side, his tastes and habits, his enthusiasms, and his devotion to democracy and the people of the United States. Three hundred years after his birth, we may remember Franklin's famous autobiography, or his status as framer of the Declaration of Independence, or perhaps his sage advice on diligence and thrift. But historian Edmund Morgan invites us to meet the man himself, an ordinary, sociable, good-natured human being with boundless curiosity about the natural world and a vision of what America could be. Drawing on life-long research in the vast Franklin archives, Morgan assembles lesser-known writings that offer insights into this founding father's thinking. The book is organized around three major themes, each with an introduction. The first section includes journal excerpts and letters revealing Franklin's personal tastes and habits. The second is devoted to Franklin's inexhaustible intellectual energy and his scientific discoveries. The third chronicles his devotion to serving the people who became the United States, and to his democratic vision of their independent future. Franklin's humanity and genius have never seemed more real than in the pages of this appealing anthology. |
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... first instance , the sacramental and sacerdotal sys- tem of the early church and the Middle Ages ; and there was the principle de- veloped from Constantine onward that the church was coextensive with society ; a church - society called ...
... first instance , the sacramental and sacerdotal sys- tem of the early church and the Middle Ages ; and there was the principle de- veloped from Constantine onward that the church was coextensive with society ; a church - society called ...
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... first to occur in a predominantly secular culture : the En- lightenment . Seventeen - eighty - nine therefore quickly escalated into a frontal assault on the whole of Europe's thousand - year - old ancien régime : monarchy , aristocracy ...
... first to occur in a predominantly secular culture : the En- lightenment . Seventeen - eighty - nine therefore quickly escalated into a frontal assault on the whole of Europe's thousand - year - old ancien régime : monarchy , aristocracy ...
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... first step here , however , will be to follow it backward to the medieval matrix of a distinctive European civilization in the period 1000–1300 . For it is in those remote centuries that the European revolu- tionary impulse first ...
... first step here , however , will be to follow it backward to the medieval matrix of a distinctive European civilization in the period 1000–1300 . For it is in those remote centuries that the European revolu- tionary impulse first ...
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... first instance also be considered a problem in the history of ideas . This is true on two accounts , first , because the historiography of both the various revolutionary “ cases ” and revolution - as - such is so self - contradictory ...
... first instance also be considered a problem in the history of ideas . This is true on two accounts , first , because the historiography of both the various revolutionary “ cases ” and revolution - as - such is so self - contradictory ...
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... first defined itself as ' Christendom " over against the worlds of pagan barbarians and Muslim infidels . This division was given endur- ing status by the eighth - century Arab conquest of the southern half of the Roman world , for the ...
... first defined itself as ' Christendom " over against the worlds of pagan barbarians and Muslim infidels . This division was given endur- ing status by the eighth - century Arab conquest of the southern half of the Roman world , for the ...
Contents
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Part II Classic Atlantic Revolutions | 131 |
Part III The Quest for Socialist Revolution | 213 |
Conclusion and Epilogue | 279 |
Whats in a Name? | 287 |
Appendix II High Social Science and Staseology | 302 |
Notes | 317 |
Index | 343 |
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