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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... produced some material , ranging from bare bibliographical references to elements of the arguments to be devel- oped , under these rubrics . This material has not been included as a whole in the present text . Some of the arguments ...
... produced some material , ranging from bare bibliographical references to elements of the arguments to be devel- oped , under these rubrics . This material has not been included as a whole in the present text . Some of the arguments ...
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... produced those revolutions that are “ the locomotives ” of universal history . Yet a diffuse Marxism remains far and away the most important influence in the contemporary social sciences . 3. A Western revolution is in the first ...
... produced those revolutions that are “ the locomotives ” of universal history . Yet a diffuse Marxism remains far and away the most important influence in the contemporary social sciences . 3. A Western revolution is in the first ...
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... produce revo- lutions so as to " isolate the variable ” peculiar to France ; and the answer , of course , was that this ... produced the Second and Final Revolution , anticipated yet con- stantly thwarted farther west from 1830 to 1871 ...
... produce revo- lutions so as to " isolate the variable ” peculiar to France ; and the answer , of course , was that this ... produced the Second and Final Revolution , anticipated yet con- stantly thwarted farther west from 1830 to 1871 ...
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... produce it). To be sure, present historiography now emphasizes that Europe accomplished so much only by pillaging and enslaving the other con- tinents. But pillage and slavery are the common practice of civilizations; and it was largely ...
... produce it). To be sure, present historiography now emphasizes that Europe accomplished so much only by pillaging and enslaving the other con- tinents. But pillage and slavery are the common practice of civilizations; and it was largely ...
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... 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 Europe that ...
... 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 Europe that ...
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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