Benjamin Franklin's intellectual world / Paul E. Kerry and Matthew S. Holland.

Other author Kerry, Paul E.
Other author Holland, Matthew Scott, 1966-
Format Book
Publication InfoMadison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2012.
Descriptionxxiii, 195 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more" / Paul E. Kerry and Matthew S. Holland -- Franklin's masks: a play upon possibility / Michael Zuckerman -- Benjamin Franklin unmasked / Jerry Weinberger -- Early modern imperialism, traditions of liberalism, and Franklin's ends of empire / Carla Mulford -- Benjamin Franklin, the mysterious "Charles de Weissenstein," and Britain's failure to coax revolutionary Americans back into the empire / Neil L. York -- Benjamin Franklin, student of the Holy Roman Empire: his summer journey to Germany in 1766 and his interest in the empire's federal constitution / Jürgen Overhoff -- Benjamin Franklin and the leather apron men: the politics of class in eighteenth-century Philadelphia / Simon P. Newman -- Recasting Franklin as printer: a note on recent historiography / Doug Thomas -- Benjamin Franklin, Richard Price, and the division of sacred and secular in the age of revolutions / Benjamin E. Park -- Ben Franklin and Socrates / Lorraine Smith Pangle -- From Weimar, with love: Benjamin Franklin's influence on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's self-fashioning / Paul E. Kerry -- Afterword: Benjamin Franklin's material presence in a digital age and popular culture world / Roy E. Goodman.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2012029446
ISBN9781611470284 (alk. paper)
ISBN1611470285 (alk. paper)
ISBN9781611470291
ISBN1611470293

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Joyner General Stacks E302.6 .F8 B494 2012 ✔ Available Place Hold