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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... Western Revolution : From the Hussites to the Bolsheviks , 1415–1991 ( or The Western Revolutionary Process , 1415–1991 ) . " The present title , beginning with Marx's famous designation of revolutions , History's Locomotives , which ...
... Western Revolution : From the Hussites to the Bolsheviks , 1415–1991 ( or The Western Revolutionary Process , 1415–1991 ) . " The present title , beginning with Marx's famous designation of revolutions , History's Locomotives , which ...
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... Western society . But does the subject of revolution as such exist ? War has certainly existed as a distinct phenomenon from earliest times , and as the subject of historical investi- gations since Herodotus and Thucydides . By analogy ...
... Western society . But does the subject of revolution as such exist ? War has certainly existed as a distinct phenomenon from earliest times , and as the subject of historical investi- gations since Herodotus and Thucydides . By analogy ...
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... Western Eyes : From the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mauso- leum.2 What I wish to do now is to show that the Russian case , for all its unique- ness , is also a logical , though extreme , culmination of the long revolutionary tra ...
... Western Eyes : From the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mauso- leum.2 What I wish to do now is to show that the Russian case , for all its unique- ness , is also a logical , though extreme , culmination of the long revolutionary tra ...
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... Western terms , rather than structurally and “ trans - culturally . ” The American social sciences are , by and large , structural in orientation ; that is , they operate in terms of the “ social system ” or “ society , ” whose basic ...
... Western terms , rather than structurally and “ trans - culturally . ” The American social sciences are , by and large , structural in orientation ; that is , they operate in terms of the “ social system ” or “ society , ” whose basic ...
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... Western culture , and they remained the primary force for egalitarianism until the eighteenth - century Enlightenment . Furthermore , even the church's own efforts to reform itself tended to generate a millenarian expec- tation of the ...
... Western culture , and they remained the primary force for egalitarianism until the eighteenth - century Enlightenment . Furthermore , even the church's own efforts to reform itself tended to generate a millenarian expec- tation of 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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