Author: American Philosophical SocietyPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
The Record of the Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Benjamin Franklin
Author: American Philosophical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
The Letters of Hon. James Habersham, 1756-1775
Author: James HabershamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Collections of the Georgia Historical Society
Author: Georgia Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Collections
Author: A Rope of Sand
Author: Michael KammenPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307827747
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
During the twenty years before the American Revolution, thirty-seven men acted as paid agent or lobbyists for the American colonies in England. The most famous among them were Benjamin Franklin, who represented four different colonies and served for seventeen years as agenet for Pennsylvania, and Edmund Burke, who accepted the position to further his own career. Yet the other thirty-five were also a colorful and heterogenous group. This detailed study, by a Pulitzer-prize-winning historian, of their activities and of the gradual breakdown of communications between the colonies and the mother country, until the link between the two become only "a rope of sand," is, in the words of the Richmond News Leader, "a new and invigorating approach to the American fight for independence." "Soundly documented, well organized and highly readable." - The New York Historical Society Quarterly "A challenging book about an important historical institution." - The Historian "A substantial contribution to our understanding of Anglo-American history during the eighteenth century." - The New England Quarterly "Both in concept and execution, A Rope of Sand is impressive." - The Journal of American History
The Works of Benjamin Franklin
Author: Benjamin FranklinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia Printing, 1728-1766
Author: Clarence William MillerPublisher: Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Franklin's printing house was one of the most influential in all the Brit. colonies in the 18th cent. Here are bibliographically accurate descriptions of the more than 800 items from broadsides to books printed by Franklin or by the partnership of Franklin and Hall. Lists 600+ pieces of job printing by Franklin, and another 100 items erroneously ascribed to the Franklin shop. Includes a summary account of Franklin's career as a printer in Phila., and individual essays on his dealings with the Brit. type-founders, the colonial Amer. papermakers, and the PA and New England bookbinders. Includes specimens of Franklin's first type fonts and pictorial reproductions of his stock of decorative ornaments and of rubbings of binders' tools found on vol. bearing his imprint.
Norton's Literary Letter
Author: Unravelled Dreams
Author: Ben MarshPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108418287
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 503
Book Description
Reveals how commodity failure, as much as success, can shed light on aspirations, environment, and economic life in colonial societies.
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