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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... parliaments — arrangements unknown in antiquity or , until the twentieth century , in Asian societies . As the political dynamic of feudalism has been expressed by its most authori- tative twentieth - century historian , Marc Bloch ...
... parliaments — arrangements unknown in antiquity or , until the twentieth century , in Asian societies . As the political dynamic of feudalism has been expressed by its most authori- tative twentieth - century historian , Marc Bloch ...
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... Parliament in England , the Estates General in France and the Burgun- dian Netherlands , the Cortès in Spain , and the Diets of Bohemia , Poland , and Hungary.13 ( To this list may be added , a century later , the Russian Zemskii So ...
... Parliament in England , the Estates General in France and the Burgun- dian Netherlands , the Cortès in Spain , and the Diets of Bohemia , Poland , and Hungary.13 ( To this list may be added , a century later , the Russian Zemskii So ...
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... Parliament in sponsoring the New Model Army against Charles I. Similarly, in 1793 the bourgeois but regicidal Jacobins, confronted with royalist revolt at home and the First Coalition of mon- archs abroad, chose to rely on the turbulent ...
... Parliament in sponsoring the New Model Army against Charles I. Similarly, in 1793 the bourgeois but regicidal Jacobins, confronted with royalist revolt at home and the First Coalition of mon- archs abroad, chose to rely on the turbulent ...
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... Parliament against Charles I , later went over to his side ; and Gen- eral Lafayette , after making Louis XVI a prisoner of the Revolution , subsequently betrayed his command to the Austrian army . ) After this treason , Sigismund domi ...
... Parliament against Charles I , later went over to his side ; and Gen- eral Lafayette , after making Louis XVI a prisoner of the Revolution , subsequently betrayed his command to the Austrian army . ) After this treason , Sigismund domi ...
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... Parliament . The Bohemian estates , however , never took the final step of declaring a repub- lic . Although republics , such as Venice and Florence , had of course long existed in Europe , it was as yet unthinkable to turn a divinely ...
... Parliament . The Bohemian estates , however , never took the final step of declaring a repub- lic . Although republics , such as Venice and Florence , had of course long existed in Europe , it was as yet unthinkable to turn a divinely ...
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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