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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... radical movement , which in fact lasted seventy - four years ( it was as if the original Jacobins had held power from 1793 to 1867 ) . Similarly inapplicable to Commu- nist Russia are such comparative categories as " Thermidor ” and ...
... radical movement , which in fact lasted seventy - four years ( it was as if the original Jacobins had held power from 1793 to 1867 ) . Similarly inapplicable to Commu- nist Russia are such comparative categories as " Thermidor ” and ...
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... radical social change , and ulti- mately leveling , in Western culture , and they remained the primary force for egalitarianism until the eighteenth - century Enlightenment . Furthermore , even the church's own efforts to reform itself ...
... radical social change , and ulti- mately leveling , in Western culture , and they remained the primary force for egalitarianism until the eighteenth - century Enlightenment . Furthermore , even the church's own efforts to reform itself ...
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... radical heirs took to anticipating a second , and final , 1789 . On the far left , this Second Coming was expected to escalate the revolution- ary agenda from political liberty for the rich and the few to social justice and equality for ...
... radical heirs took to anticipating a second , and final , 1789 . On the far left , this Second Coming was expected to escalate the revolution- ary agenda from political liberty for the rich and the few to social justice and equality for ...
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... radical , leveling revolutions of the twentieth century . Moreover , although Tocqueville spoke often of the clergy , he said little about religion itself , beyond noting that it was the indispensable moral cement of society . A second ...
... radical , leveling revolutions of the twentieth century . Moreover , although Tocqueville spoke often of the clergy , he said little about religion itself , beyond noting that it was the indispensable moral cement of society . A second ...
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... radical change could emerge and eventually achieve a measure of legitimacy . The answer is to be found in the internal contradictions of the two mainstays of medieval society , feudalism in the secular sphere and the Ro- man Catholic ...
... radical change could emerge and eventually achieve a measure of legitimacy . The answer is to be found in the internal contradictions of the two mainstays of medieval society , feudalism in the secular sphere and the Ro- man Catholic ...
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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