Carla J Mulford

Benjamin Franklin and the Ends of Empire

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A study of Franklin's writings on the British Empire and its relationship to the British North America, Mulford assesses the founding father's thoughts on economics, society, politics, and the environment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 446
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 163mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780199384198
• ISBN-10: 0199384193
• Artikelnr.: 47974347

Autorenporträt

Carla Mulford is Associate Professor of English at Pennsylvania State and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Franklin. She is also the founding president of the Society for Early Americanists.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* Chapter 1: "This obscure Family of ours was early in the
Reformation": On Family Memory
* Chapter 2: "I had such a Thirst for Knowledge": Franklin's Boston
Youth
* Chapter 3: Franklin's Imperial Imaginings: "Coined Land" and Global
Goals
* Chapter 4: Pennsylvania Politics and the Problems of Empire
* Chapter 5: "People in the Colonies . . . better Judges": Observing
Empire at Midcentury
* Chapter 6: Franklin in London's Theatre of Empire
* Chapter 7: Love of Country
* Chapter 8: Rebellion to Tyrants, Obedience to God
* Chapter 9: "I intended well, and I hope all will end well":
Franklin's Last Years
* Conclusion
* Notes
* Bibliography of Printed Sources
* Index