A Companion to Benjamin Franklin 1st Edition by David Waldstreicher ISBN 1405199962 9781405199964

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ISBN 10: 1405199962

ISBN 13: 9781405199964 

Author: David Waldstreicher 

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

Table of contents:

Part I: Biography

1. Franklin’s Boston Years
2. The Philadelphia Years
3. The Making of a Patriot
4. Franklin Furioso

Part II: Franklin and Eighteenth-Century America
5. Benjamin Franklin and Colonial Society
6. Benjamin Franklin and Pennsylvania Politics
7. Benjamin Franklin and Religion
8. Benjamin Franklin and the Coming of the American Revolution
9. Benjamin Franklin and Native Americans
10. The Complexion of My Country: Benjamin Franklin and the Problem of Racial Diversity
11. Benjamin Franklin, Capitalism, and Slavery
12. Benjamin Franklin and Women

Part III: Franklin the Writer and Thinker
13. “The Manners and Situation of a Rising People”: Reading Franklin’s Autobiography
14. Poor Richard’s Almanac
15. Benjamin Franklin and Journalism
16. Benjamin Franklin, the Science of Flow, and the Legacy of the Enlightenment
17. Benjamin Franklin, Associations, and Civil Society
18. Empire and Nation
19. Franklin’s Pictorial Representations of British America

Part IV: Franklin and the Categories of Inquiry
20. American Literature and American Studies
21. Benjamin Franklin’s Material Cultures
22. Benjamin Franklin and Political Theory
23. Benjamin Franklin and International Relations
24. Benjamin Franklin in Memory and Popular Culture

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