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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... creation , however unfair this may be to the rest of hu- manity . Until the twentieth century , outside the European cultural orbit ( which includes , of course , the Americas ) there was nothing that may plausibly be called a ...
... creation , however unfair this may be to the rest of hu- manity . Until the twentieth century , outside the European cultural orbit ( which includes , of course , the Americas ) there was nothing that may plausibly be called a ...
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... created a new nation and a republic , an outcome that was obviously “ revolutionary ” in the modern sense of post ... creation of a ' new man . ” Thus , the French events generated , for the first time in the West , a cult of revolution ...
... created a new nation and a republic , an outcome that was obviously “ revolutionary ” in the modern sense of post ... creation of a ' new man . ” Thus , the French events generated , for the first time in the West , a cult of revolution ...
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... created for the building of a strong institutional framework for Latin Christendom. It emerged from the top down, through a radical reform in what had been the weaker half of the Carolingian system, the monastic and papal church ...
... created for the building of a strong institutional framework for Latin Christendom. It emerged from the top down, through a radical reform in what had been the weaker half of the Carolingian system, the monastic and papal church ...
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... created for them , and for the world around them , an acute moral problem . As the Gospels taught , wealth of any ... creating wealth and its enduring conviction that the kingdom of God is not of this world . This conflict , moreover ...
... created for them , and for the world around them , an acute moral problem . As the Gospels taught , wealth of any ... creating wealth and its enduring conviction that the kingdom of God is not of this world . This conflict , moreover ...
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... created by his father's suc- cess . Resenting the power and wealth of the church , he quarreled with the arch- bishop , thus giving the great nobles an opportunity to challenge the strong mon- archy created by Charles . In 1394 , a ...
... created by his father's suc- cess . Resenting the power and wealth of the church , he quarreled with the arch- bishop , thus giving the great nobles an opportunity to challenge the strong mon- archy created by Charles . In 1394 , a ...
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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