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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... France , he com- pared the French case with cognate Old Regimes that did not produce revo- lutions so as to " isolate the variable ” peculiar to France ; and the answer , of course , was that this variable was the anti - nobility ...
... France , he com- pared the French case with cognate Old Regimes that did not produce revo- lutions so as to " isolate the variable ” peculiar to France ; and the answer , of course , was that this variable was the anti - nobility ...
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... France . In short , the scenario of the Hussite proto - revolution , though not a perfect fit with any later case , is still close enough to begin to trace a pattern . Where ap- propriate , therefore , the following narrative introduces ...
... France . In short , the scenario of the Hussite proto - revolution , though not a perfect fit with any later case , is still close enough to begin to trace a pattern . Where ap- propriate , therefore , the following narrative introduces ...
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... France . Bohemia , with around one million inhabitants , was thus a smaller scale but well - developed feudal monarchy analogous to Capetian France and Plan- tagenet England ; and the Lands of the Crown of Bohemia taken as a whole ...
... France . Bohemia , with around one million inhabitants , was thus a smaller scale but well - developed feudal monarchy analogous to Capetian France and Plan- tagenet England ; and the Lands of the Crown of Bohemia taken as a whole ...
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... France , the revolutionary explosion ended in military conquest , ex- pansion , and plunder , this time on a Napoleonic , continental scale . Yet despite these successes , and the Taborite military's long hegemony within the Hussite ...
... France , the revolutionary explosion ended in military conquest , ex- pansion , and plunder , this time on a Napoleonic , continental scale . Yet despite these successes , and the Taborite military's long hegemony within the Hussite ...
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... France , and Palacky in Bohemia were giving shape to their national revolu- tionary dramas , Ranke staked out the European sixteenth century as the age the Renaissance and Reformation , first with his History of the Popes ( 1834–1839 ) ...
... France , and Palacky in Bohemia were giving shape to their national revolu- tionary dramas , Ranke staked out the European sixteenth century as the age the Renaissance and Reformation , first with his History of the Popes ( 1834–1839 ) ...
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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