Download or read book Benjamin Franklin Colonial Agent to Great Britain 1757 1762 written by Rachel Wells Carroll and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Benjamin Franklin in London written by George Goodwin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of Franklin's British years.
Download or read book The Devious Dr Franklin Colonial Agent written by David T. Morgan and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Account Book of Benjamin Franklin Kept by Him During His First Mission to England as Provincial Agent 1757 1762 written by and published by . This book was released on 1931* with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Benjamin Franklin in London written by George Goodwin and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the great majority of his long life, Benjamin Franklin was a loyal British royalist. In 1757, having made his fortune in Philadelphia and established his fame as a renowned experimental 'scientist', he crossed the Atlantic to live as a gentleman in the heaving metropolis of London. With just a brief interlude, a house in Craven Street was to be his home until 1775. From there he mixed with both the brilliant and the powerful. He counted David Hume, Matthew Boulton, Joseph Priestley, Edmund Burke and Erasmus Darwin among his friends. He had access to successive Prime Ministers and even the King. However, Benjamin Franklin was also an American colonial representative. Though he long sought to prevent the break with Great Britain, his own actions would finally help cause that very event. On the eve of the American War of Independence, Franklin fled arrest and escaped by sea. He would never return to London. George Goodwin brilliantly describes the energetic, engaging but sometimes enigmatic Dr Franklin in the world's greatest city during the third quarter of the eighteenth century. He relates how Franklin formed close and firm friendships among those who shared his spirit of enquiry, whether in London coffee house clubs, at the Royal Society, or on his summer travels around the British Isles and continental Europe. But Goodwin also shows that others, including members of the London-based Penn family, some American colonials and an increasing number of British aristocratic politicians, regarded Franklin very differently. The early 1760s saw Britain's elevation to global superpower status with victory in the Seven Years War - with debts to match - and the succession of the young active George III. These two events brought a sharp new edge to political competition in London and a redefinition of the relationship between Britain and its colonies. They would profoundly affect Franklin himself and his ambitious son William. By 1775 they would both be back in America but on opposite sides. With a unique focus on the fullness of Benjamin Franklin's life in London, this is an enthralling portrait of the man, the city and the age.
Download or read book The Works of Benjamin Franklin Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition and Many Letters Official and Private Not Hitherto Published With Notes and a Life by the Author by Jared Sparks written by Benjamin Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin written by Benjamin Franklin and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account stands as a classic among autobiographies, a compelling and easy read about a man who, from lowly beginnings in Boston, rose to become a hugely-respected public servant, writer, scientist and inventor and who went on to play a key role in the American Revolution and the founding of the United States. Franklin's autobiography, published after his death, is an unfinished collection of memoirs written over four different periods of his life. It starts in the form of a letter to his son, William, and describes aspects of his childhood in Boston in the early 1700s and his move to Philadelphia where he set up a successful printing business. The many contributions he made to public causes grew out of a strong sense of civic duty, and a stringent work ethic that formed part of his "plan for attaining moral perfection," which is detailed in the second period. The last two sections cover his impressive political and scientific work and give the reader an insight into the developing tensions between the American colonies and the British crown. A polymath of immense standing, Benjamin Franklin stands out as one of the most highly esteemed figures of the nineteenth century.
Download or read book The Works of Benjamin Franklin Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition and Many Letters Official and Private Not Hitherto Published written by Benjamin Franklin and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
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Download or read book Democracy s Signature written by Danny Fingeroth and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2003-12-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aging inventor and statesman Benjamin Franklin participates in the debate surrounding the American colonies' potential break from Great Britain, ultimately helping to write and signing the Declaration of Independence.
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Download or read book A Companion to Benjamin Franklin written by David Waldstreicher and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-06-13 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book The Works of Benjamin Franklin written by Benjamin Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Papers of Benjamin Franklin written by Benjamin Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventh volume concludes the first period of Franklin's public service in Pennsylvania, and takes him to England to begin his "second career," that of colonial agent. Problems of defense during the war with France, quartering of British troops in Philadelphia, and financing of Pennsylvania's military heavily engaged his attention as Assembly leader. When the dispute over taxation of proprietary estates led the Assembly to send him to England, Franklin make a new will, arranged for supervision of the colonial postal system during his absence, tended to much personal business, yet found time to correspond with friends on such topics as the nature of heat and cold. On the voyage to England he wrote what is generally known as "The Way to Wealth," his most widely reprinted single composition.
