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Author Houston, Alan Craig, 1957-

Title Benjamin Franklin and the politics of improvement / Alan Houston
Published New Haven [Conn.] : Yale Univ. Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 321 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
Contents Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Author's Note -- Map of Philadelphia by Nicholas Scull and George Heap, 1752 -- Map of British North America, c. 1750 -- Map of the British Atlantic World, c. 1763 -- Introduction -- 1. Commerce -- 2. Association -- 3. Population -- 4. Union -- 5. Slavery -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Franklin and Weber -- Chronology -- Notes -- Glossary of Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G
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Summary <P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">This fascinating book explores Benjamin Franklin's social and political thought. Although Franklin is often considered "the first American," his intellectual world was cosmopolitan. An active participa
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-306) and index
Notes English
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Subject Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Political and social views
SUBJECT Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 fast
Subject Political science.
Statesmen -- United States -- Biography
HISTORY.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Civics & Citizenship.
Political and social views
Political science
Statesmen
Biography.
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780300152395
0300152396
1282088874
9781282088870
9786612351709
6612351705
9786612088872
6612088877