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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... estates : those who pray , those who fight , those who work . Formed between 1100 and 1300 , these feudal monarchies were slowly central- ized to where by the sixteenth century they became what historians later called “ absolute ...
... estates : those who pray , those who fight , those who work . Formed between 1100 and 1300 , these feudal monarchies were slowly central- ized to where by the sixteenth century they became what historians later called “ absolute ...
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... estates , at the same time more elaborate representative bodies flourished in the west and center of the continent . So by the end of the fifteenth century it turned out that there were in fact three Europes . There was the original ...
... estates , at the same time more elaborate representative bodies flourished in the west and center of the continent . So by the end of the fifteenth century it turned out that there were in fact three Europes . There was the original ...
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... estate ” . either of those who pray , or of those who fight , or of those who humbly toil . For everything in this fallen world was ordered to serve the purpose of the God who made it , and to work the redemption of those who served him ...
... estate ” . either of those who pray , or of those who fight , or of those who humbly toil . For everything in this fallen world was ordered to serve the purpose of the God who made it , and to work the redemption of those who served him ...
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... estates, or orders, of the feudal hierarchy the con- stitutional form of elected, representative assemblies. Second, the efforts of the church to christianize the world ultimately had the perverse effect of making the church worldly ...
... estates, or orders, of the feudal hierarchy the con- stitutional form of elected, representative assemblies. Second, the efforts of the church to christianize the world ultimately had the perverse effect of making the church worldly ...
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... estates in order to tax the popu- lation through their own agents. Concurrently, military absolutism utilized the new science and its accompanying philosophical rationalism to promote a more coherent statecraft, a ''policed'' or orderly ...
... estates in order to tax the popu- lation through their own agents. Concurrently, military absolutism utilized the new science and its accompanying philosophical rationalism to promote a more coherent statecraft, a ''policed'' or orderly ...
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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