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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... Christianity to Marx's edenic “ classless , stateless society , ” a filiation often directly claimed by the movement's leaders . Marx , the basis of whose system was laid by 1845 , was only the most prominent of these theorists of ...
... Christianity to Marx's edenic “ classless , stateless society , ” a filiation often directly claimed by the movement's leaders . Marx , the basis of whose system was laid by 1845 , was only the most prominent of these theorists of ...
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... Christianity . This means linking both Christianity's doctrinal content and its institutional struc- tures to the political and social process of democratic escalation ... Christian theology and ecclesiology to both feudalism 8 Introduction.
... Christianity . This means linking both Christianity's doctrinal content and its institutional struc- tures to the political and social process of democratic escalation ... Christian theology and ecclesiology to both feudalism 8 Introduction.
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... Christian theology and ecclesiology to both feudalism and early- modern Old Regime successors . Weber himself , of course , never attempted such an effort ; nor was he interested in the problem of revolution . But the aspect of European ...
... Christian theology and ecclesiology to both feudalism and early- modern Old Regime successors . Weber himself , of course , never attempted such an effort ; nor was he interested in the problem of revolution . But the aspect of European ...
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... Christianity and the Revolution .... The Revolution continues Christianity , and contradicts it . It is at the same time Christianity's heir and its adversary . —JULES MICHELET , History of the French Revolution , 1847 And I saw an ...
... Christianity and the Revolution .... The Revolution continues Christianity , and contradicts it . It is at the same time Christianity's heir and its adversary . —JULES MICHELET , History of the French Revolution , 1847 And I saw an ...
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... Christianity , had its origins in Judaism and in a geographic East extending on to Babylon and Persia , and of course to African Egypt.2 But such a tri - continental , tri - millennial entity is too vast to constitute a single ...
... Christianity , had its origins in Judaism and in a geographic East extending on to Babylon and Persia , and of course to African Egypt.2 But such a tri - continental , tri - millennial entity is too vast to constitute a single ...
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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