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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... Empire between the fifth and the eighth centuries . Indeed , some would argue that it was medieval Europe's great good fortune that the empire fell in the West , thereby sparing it the autocratic fate of the East under Constantinople ...
... Empire between the fifth and the eighth centuries . Indeed , some would argue that it was medieval Europe's great good fortune that the empire fell in the West , thereby sparing it the autocratic fate of the East under Constantinople ...
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... Empire too had become a sacred institution, though with the basileus clearly paramount. As already noted, in the seventh century the nomads of Arabia had conquered the southern half of the Mediterranean world, thereby making the Latin ...
... Empire too had become a sacred institution, though with the basileus clearly paramount. As already noted, in the seventh century the nomads of Arabia had conquered the southern half of the Mediterranean world, thereby making the Latin ...
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... empire of Constantine and Theodosius had never done. It implemented this project by introducing a calendar that counted the years from the birth of Christ; it spread Christianity, an urban religion in antiquity, to the pagan peas- antry ...
... empire of Constantine and Theodosius had never done. It implemented this project by introducing a calendar that counted the years from the birth of Christ; it spread Christianity, an urban religion in antiquity, to the pagan peas- antry ...
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... empire produced a religious schism with Constantinople that would culminate in 1064.8 This development, to be sure, did not put the Greek East in the same category as pagans or infidels; but it did create a duality within Christian ...
... empire produced a religious schism with Constantinople that would culminate in 1064.8 This development, to be sure, did not put the Greek East in the same category as pagans or infidels; but it did create a duality within Christian ...
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... empire . By 1300 this Drang nach Osten had passed the Oder and reached the Vistula ; and it had descended the Danube to Vienna . Its furthest advance , the work of crusading knights , came along the Baltic coast from East Prussia to the ...
... empire . By 1300 this Drang nach Osten had passed the Oder and reached the Vistula ; and it had descended the Danube to Vienna . Its furthest advance , the work of crusading knights , came along the Baltic coast from East Prussia to 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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