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02154cam a2200421 a 4500 001 899708F2FBD011DEB3E93EDF5F36B428 003 SILO 005 20100405092921 008 080314s2008 ctuab b 001 0deng 010 $a 2008010960 020 $a 0300124473 (alk. paper) 020 $a 9780300124477 (alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)213479993 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d C#P $d BWX $d IXA $d CDX $d UKM $d HLS $d IOL $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E302.6.F8 $b H77 2008 082 14 $a B $a B $2 22 100 1 $a Houston, Alan Craig, $d 1957- 245 1 $a Benjamin Franklin and the politics of improvement / $c Alan Houston. 260 $a New Haven : $b Yale University Press, $c c2008. 300 $a xi, 321 p. : $b ill., maps ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-306) and index. 520 $a 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 participant in eighteenth-century Atlantic debates over the modern commercial republic, Franklin combined abstract analyses with practical proposals. Houston treats Franklin as shrewd, creative and engaged- a lively thinker who joined both learned controversies and political conflicts at home and abroad. -- From book cover. 600 10 $a Franklin, Benjamin, $d 1706-1790 $x Political and social views. 650 0 $a Political science. 650 0 $a Statesmen $z United States $v Biography. 830 0 $a Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history. 856 41 $3 Table of contents only $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0813/2008010960.html 941 $a 6 952 $l OZAX845 $d 20240525040109.0 952 $l ULAX314 $d 20190926091753.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20171221022844.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160824074309.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20100120073657.0 952 $l PTAX572 $d 20100120073657.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=899708F2FBD011DEB3E93EDF5F36B428 994 $a 02 $b IOLInitiate Another SILO Locator Search