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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... institutional origins in late medieval and early modern Europe (Chapters 1–5), an exercise that is essential to his argument about the specifically European origins of the ''modern revolutionary impulse'' in general. The second ...
... institutional origins in late medieval and early modern Europe (Chapters 1–5), an exercise that is essential to his argument about the specifically European origins of the ''modern revolutionary impulse'' in general. The second ...
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... institutions and cultural norms. 2. As a consequence of this Eurocentricity, revolution must be studied in the first instance historically, in specifically Western terms, rather than structurally and ''trans-culturally.'' The American ...
... institutions and cultural norms. 2. As a consequence of this Eurocentricity, revolution must be studied in the first instance historically, in specifically Western terms, rather than structurally and ''trans-culturally.'' The American ...
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... institutional structures to the political and social process of democratic escalation. To do so, it is necessary to go back again to Tocqueville's starting point in the year 1000, and thus to relate Christian theology and ecclesiology ...
... institutional structures to the political and social process of democratic escalation. To do so, it is necessary to go back again to Tocqueville's starting point in the year 1000, and thus to relate Christian theology and ecclesiology ...
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... institutions. Such a collective self-awareness, with a minimum of corresponding institutions, emerged whenthe Carolingianworld first defineditself as''Christendom'' over againstthe worlds of pagan barbarians and Muslim infidels. This ...
... institutions. Such a collective self-awareness, with a minimum of corresponding institutions, emerged whenthe Carolingianworld first defineditself as''Christendom'' over againstthe worlds of pagan barbarians and Muslim infidels. This ...
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... institutional, and cultural capital accumulated between 1000 and 1400. Despite the darkness overhanging the ... institution, the Church, and its written language, Latin, as well as what little it conserved of higher culture. This new ...
... institutional, and cultural capital accumulated between 1000 and 1400. Despite the darkness overhanging the ... institution, the Church, and its written language, Latin, as well as what little it conserved of higher culture. This new ...
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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