Soldier, scientist, and politician, 1748-1757
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書誌事項
Soldier, scientist, and politician, 1748-1757
（The life of Benjamin Franklin / J.A. Leo Lemay, v. 3）
University of Pennsylvania Press, c2009
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注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Described as "a harmonious human multitude," Ben Franklin's life and careers were so varied and successful that he remains, even today, the epitome of the self-made man. Born into a humble tradesman's family, this adaptable genius rose to become an architect of the world's first democracy, a leading light in Enlightenment science, and a major creator of what has come to be known as the American character. Journalist, musician, politician, scientist, humorist, inventor, civic leader, printer, writer, publisher, businessman, founding father, philosopher-a genius in all fields and a bit of a magician in some.
Volume 3 begins in the year 1748, when Franklin was known in Pennsylvania as clerk of the Pennsylvania Assembly and in the Middle Colonies as the printer and editor of Poor Richard's Almanac and the Pennsylvania Gazette, the best-known colonial publications. By the middle of 1757, where this volume leaves off, he had become famous in Pennsylvania as a public-spirited citizen and soldier in the conflicts of the Seven Years' War; well known throughout America as a writer, politician, and the most important theorist and patriot of the American empire; and renowned in the western world as a natural philosopher. This volume tells the story of that transformation.
目次
- List of Illustrations Preface 1. The Association, 1747-1748 2. Electricity 3. Astronomy, Weather, and the Northwest Passage: Natural Philosopher, 1748-1757 4. Clerk, Councilman, and Magistrate, 1748-1751 5. The Academy and College of Philadelphia 6. Colonial Union, Dumping Felons in America, and Assemblyman, 1751 7. The Fundamental Document of the American Revolution, 1751 8. The Pennsylvania Hospital 9. Franklin's First Full Assembly, the Money Bill, and Susanna Wright, 1751-1752 10. Insurance: The Philadelphia Contributionship 11. Paper Currency, the Coming of War, and a Trip to New England, 1752-1753 12. The Carlisle Treaty, Postmaster General, a Trip to New England, and Assembly Sessions, 1753-1754 13. The Pennsylvania Germans 14. Assembly Sessions, the Snake Cartoon, and the Albany Conference, 1754 15. Boston, America and the Empire, and Katy Ray, 1754-1755 16. Libels on the Assembly, Quincy's Mission, and General Braddock, 1755 17. Assembly Crises, Crown Point, Parables, and Glimpses of Deborah, 1755 18. The French and Indians Attack and Pennsylvania Responds, 1755 19. General Franklin on the Frontier, 1755-1756 20. Rival Militias, Colonel Franklin, to Virginia, to New York, and Frontier Fighting, 1756 21. Military Tour to Carlisle, Harris's Ferry, and New York
- Assembly Sessions and Easton Treaty, 1756-1757 22. Franklin in New York and at Sea, 1757 23. Assessing Franklin, Age 42 through 51 Appendices 1. New Attributions 2. Franklin's Residences and Real Estate to 1757 3. Electrical Terminology 4. The Influence of Benjamin Franklin's "Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind" (1751) on Ezra Stiles, Richard Price, and Adam Smith
- Thomas Malthus
- Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin 5. Franklin's Plan of Union and the Albany Plan 6. Franklin's Saying: "Essential Liberty . . . Temporary Safety" 7. Post Office Expansion, 1753-1757 8. Franklin's Wealth, 1756 9. The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin List of Abbreviations Notes Index
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