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Book

The Society for Useful Knowledge : how Benjamin Franklin and friends brought the Enlightenment to America

Call Number

  • 973.3 L9917 (OSH)

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Edition

1st U.S. edition.

Publication Information

Bloomsbury Press : New York, 2013.

Physical Description

xiv, 220 pages ; 25 cm

Contents

  • The age of Franklin
  • Breaking the chain
  • The leather apron men
  • Useful knowledge
  • Sense and sensibility
  • Dead and useless languages
  • Knowledge and rebellion
  • The mechanics of revolution
  • Epilogue: manufacturing America.

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