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Genre/Form: | Personal correspondence Essays Autobiographies Biographies Early works History Biography Early works to 1800 |
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Named Person: | Benjamin Franklin; Benjamin Franklin |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Benjamin Franklin; Alan Craig Houston |
ISBN: | 0521834961 9780521834964 0521542650 9780521542654 |
OCLC Number: | 54462029 |
Description: | lii, 381 pages ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | 13. Proposals relating to the education of youth in Pennsylvania -- 14. Observations concerning the increase of mankind (1751) -- 15. Letter to James Parker (1751) -- 16. Rattlesnakes for Felons (1751) -- 17. Letter to Peter Collinson (1753) -- 18. Letter to Peter Collinson (1753) -- 19. Join or die (1754) -- 20. Reasons and motives for the Albany Plan of Union (1754) -- 21. Letters to Governor Shirley (1754) with a preface of 1766 -- 22. Preface to poor Richard improved (1757) -- 23. Letter to ________ (1757) -- 24. Letter to Lord Kames (1760) -- 25. On the price of corn, and the management of the poor (1766) -- 26. Letter to Lord Kames (1767)-- 27. Causes of the American discontents before 1768 (1768) -- 28. The Somersett case and the slave trade (1772) -- 29. Rules by which a Great Empire may be reduced to a small one (1773). 30. An edict by the King of Prussia (1773) -- 31. On a proposed act to prevent immigration (1773) -- 32. Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union (1775) -- 33. Morals of Chess (1779) -- 34. The Whistle (1779) -- 35. Letter to Joseph Priestley (1780) -- 36. Letter to Joseph Priestley (1782) -- 37. Letter to Richard Price (1782) -- 38. Letter to Robert Morris (1783) -- 39. Remarks concerning the savages of North America (1784) -- 40. Letter to Sarah Franklin Bache (1784) -- 41. Information to those who would remove to America (1784) -- 42. Letter to Benjamin Vaughan (1784) -- 43. At the Constitutional Convention (1787) -- 44. Queries and remarks (1789) -- 45. On the Slave Trade (1790). |
Series Title: | Cambridge texts in the history of political thought. |
Other Titles: | Works. |
Responsibility: | edited by Alan Houston. |
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Abstract:
Alan Houston seeks to bring clarity to our understanding of Benjamin Franklin's political thought by making available a full and representative selection of his most important political writings. The entire text of the Autobiography is included alongside letters, essays, pamphlets, and manuscript notes.
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- Franklin, Benjamin, -- 1706-1790.
- Statesmen -- United States -- Biography.
- United States -- Economic conditions -- To 1865.
- United States -- Politics and government -- To 1775.
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783.
- Political culture -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
- Political science -- Early works to 1800.
- Political science -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
- Virtue.
- Social values.
- Franklin, Benjamin, -- 1706-1790
- Statesmen.
- Politics and government.
- Political science.
- Political culture.
- Economic history.
- United States.
- Politieke geschiedenis.