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Title:

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

Publisher:

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ;

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xxiii, 195 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Franklin, Benjamin,--1706-1790--Knowledge and learning.
Franklin, Benjamin,--1706-1790--Political and social views.
United States--Intellectual life--18th century.

Other Authors:

Kerry, Paul E.
Holland, Matthew Scott, 1966-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 / J©ơrgen 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.

ISBN:

1611470293
9781611470291
1611470285 (alk. paper)
9781611470284 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)698327987

LCCN:

2012029446

Locations:

USUX851 -- ISU Library (Ames)