Benjamin Franklin's Printing Network: Disseminating Virtue in Early America"Explores Benjamin Franklin's network of partnerships and business relationships with printers. His network altered practices in both European and American colonial printing trades by providing capital and political influence to set up working partnerships with James Parker, Francis Childs, Benjamin Mecom, Benjamin Franklin Bache, David Hall, Anthony Armbruster, and others"--Provided by publisher. |
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... First American” and “the founding father who winks at us.”3 However, others have sought to find ignoble motives in his conduct and to dismiss his writings and printing career as self-serving and pecuniary. Surveying some of the articles ...
... First American” and “the founding father who winks at us.”3 However, others have sought to find ignoble motives in his conduct and to dismiss his writings and printing career as self-serving and pecuniary. Surveying some of the articles ...
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... First , and most fundamental , is that people inevitably associ- ate in groups . This interdependence has been repeatedly expounded in the literary world . Several generations before Franklin's birth , poet John Donne wrote , “ No man ...
... First , and most fundamental , is that people inevitably associ- ate in groups . This interdependence has been repeatedly expounded in the literary world . Several generations before Franklin's birth , poet John Donne wrote , “ No man ...
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... first and some not — then these interconnections form networks , which rely on available channels of communication for their cohesion . Social networks were common in early America , taking the form of net- works within communities ...
... first and some not — then these interconnections form networks , which rely on available channels of communication for their cohesion . Social networks were common in early America , taking the form of net- works within communities ...
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... first four chapters of this study identify the formation of Franklin's moral thinking and its manifestation in his journalism . The middle four de- lineate successes and failures of some major partnerships at expanding Frank- lin's ...
... first four chapters of this study identify the formation of Franklin's moral thinking and its manifestation in his journalism . The middle four de- lineate successes and failures of some major partnerships at expanding Frank- lin's ...
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... first and greatest characters of the world . " Some of these encomiums came to Franklin's attention . “ I never see any Boston newspapers , ” he told his sister Jane . “ You mention there being often something in them to do me honour ...
... first and greatest characters of the world . " Some of these encomiums came to Franklin's attention . “ I never see any Boston newspapers , ” he told his sister Jane . “ You mention there being often something in them to do me honour ...
Contents
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Spreading Virtue to South Carolina | 64 |
Network Expansion from New York to the Caribbean | 78 |
The Political Imperative of the Pennsylvania German Partnerships | 98 |
Franklin Plants a Printer in His Native New England | 115 |
The Franklin Network and the Stamp Act | 138 |
Rebellion and Network Loyalties | 155 |
The Moral Reform of a Scurrilous Press | 168 |
God Humanity and Franklins Legacy | 192 |
Abbreviations | 209 |
Bibliography | 265 |
Index | 291 |
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Benjamin Franklin's Printing Network: Disseminating Virtue in Early America Ralph Frasca Limited preview - 2006 |
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