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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... means tracing the radicalization of the European revolutionary process from what I consider to be its beginnings with the fifteenth - century Hussites to the twentieth century , with special emphasis on the two pivotal instances of ...
... means tracing the radicalization of the European revolutionary process from what I consider to be its beginnings with the fifteenth - century Hussites to the twentieth century , with special emphasis on the two pivotal instances of ...
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... mean a division of power , which would later form the basis for the separation of powers and the checks and balances of modern constitutionalism . 5. A European “ grand revolution , ” then , is a generalized revolt against an Old Regime ...
... mean a division of power , which would later form the basis for the separation of powers and the checks and balances of modern constitutionalism . 5. A European “ grand revolution , ” then , is a generalized revolt against an Old Regime ...
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... mean a creatively violent process ushering in a new world - historical epoch , and the creation of a ' new man . ” Thus , the French events generated , for the first time in the West , a cult of revolution as the way history works ; or ...
... mean a creatively violent process ushering in a new world - historical epoch , and the creation of a ' new man . ” Thus , the French events generated , for the first time in the West , a cult of revolution as the way history works ; or ...
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... means pursuing comparisons of contiguous cases in a sequential temporal con- tinuum : that is , cases of partial overlap , as well as of partial divergence , between earlier and later instances of a brusque break in European history ...
... means pursuing comparisons of contiguous cases in a sequential temporal con- tinuum : that is , cases of partial overlap , as well as of partial divergence , between earlier and later instances of a brusque break in European history ...
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... mean by Europe or the West ? How did a geographical term come to designate a civilization ? When did this civilization begin ? How far does it extend in space , particularly to the East ? What , finally , are its defining ...
... mean by Europe or the West ? How did a geographical term come to designate a civilization ? When did this civilization begin ? How far does it extend in space , particularly to the East ? What , finally , are its defining ...
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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