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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... Religious Heresy two Hussite Bohemia, 1415–1436: From Heresy to Proto-Revolution 37 three Lutheran Germany, 1517–1555: The Reformation as Semi-Revolution 60 four Huguenot France, 1559–1598 98 five The Netherlands' Revolt, 1566–1609 115 ...
... Religious Heresy two Hussite Bohemia, 1415–1436: From Heresy to Proto-Revolution 37 three Lutheran Germany, 1517–1555: The Reformation as Semi-Revolution 60 four Huguenot France, 1559–1598 98 five The Netherlands' Revolt, 1566–1609 115 ...
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... religion than the Lutheran doctrine of this- worldlycallingandtheCalvinistprincipleofdouble predestinationwhichWeber ... Religious dissent and heresy, therefore, furnished the first impulse to radical social change, and ultimately ...
... religion than the Lutheran doctrine of this- worldlycallingandtheCalvinistprincipleofdouble predestinationwhichWeber ... Religious dissent and heresy, therefore, furnished the first impulse to radical social change, and ultimately ...
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... religious in character, and so never thought of itself as a revolution. When it was finished its heirs obliterated from the national consciousness the fact that they had made a revolution. At the time, the revolution's concluding ...
... religious in character, and so never thought of itself as a revolution. When it was finished its heirs obliterated from the national consciousness the fact that they had made a revolution. At the time, the revolution's concluding ...
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... religion itself, beyond noting that it was the indispensable moral cement of society. A second fundamental aspect, then, of the approach used here is to apply to Tocqueville's problem Weber's sensitivity to the social role of ...
... religion itself, beyond noting that it was the indispensable moral cement of society. A second fundamental aspect, then, of the approach used here is to apply to Tocqueville's problem Weber's sensitivity to the social role of ...
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... religious approach to Tocqueville's political problem is a legitimate extension of Weber's assessment of the historical ... religion. For seventy-odd years, social science ''staseology'' has been in pursuit of the grail of a universal ...
... religious approach to Tocqueville's political problem is a legitimate extension of Weber's assessment of the historical ... religion. For seventy-odd years, social science ''staseology'' has been in pursuit of the grail of a universal ...
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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