A Companion to Benjamin Franklin (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Waldstreicher, David

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This companion provides a comprehensive survey of the life, work and legacy of Benjamin Franklin - the oldest, most distinctive, and multifaceted of the founders. * Includes contributions from across a range of academic disciplines * Combines traditional and cutting-edge scholarship, from accomplished and emerging experts in the field * Pays special attention to the American Revolution, the Enlightenment, journalism, colonial American society, and themes of race, class, and gender * Places Franklin in the context of recent work in political theory, American Studies, American literature, material culture studies, popular culture, and international relations

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444342123
• Artikelnr.: 38308998

Autorenporträt

David Waldstreicher is Professor of History at Temple University. He is the author of numerous publications including Slavery's Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification (2009); Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery and the American Revolution (2004); and In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820 (1997).

Inhaltsangabe

About the Contributors

Introduction
Part I: Biography

Part II: Franklin and Eighteenth Century America

Part III: Franklin the Writer and Thinker

Part IV: Franklin and the Categories of Inquiry

Bibliography

Rezensionen

"Readers will also appreciate the text'scomprehensive bibliography. Summing Up: Highlyrecommended. General readers, upper-division undergraduates,researchers/faculty." (Choice, 1 April 2012)"A wonderful addition to the field of eighteenth-centurystudies, making available in a single volume the latest scholarshipon this important figure." - Kate Mearns Ohno, ThePapers of Benjamin Franklin, Yale University

"This wide-ranging collection of essays enhances ourunderstanding of the endlessly fascinating runaway, printer,scientist, imperial servant, and revolutionary Benjamin Franklin,and illuminates his significance in American history andculture." - Simon P. Newman, Sir Denis BroganProfessor of American History, University of Glasgow