A Companion to Benjamin Franklin

✍ Scribed by David Waldstreicher (ed.)

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 553
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

Content:
Chapter One Franklin's Boston Years, 1706–1723 (pages 5–24): Nian?sheng Huang
Chapter Two The Philadelphia Years, 1723–1757 (pages 25–45): George W. Boudreau
Chapter Three The Making of a Patriot, 1757–1775 (pages 46–64): Sheila L. Skemp
Chapter Four Franklin Furioso, 1775–1790 (pages 65–79): Jonathan R. Dull
Chapter Five Benjamin Franklin and Colonial Society (pages 81–103): Konstantin Dierks
Chapter Six Benjamin Franklin and Pennsylvania Politics (pages 104–128): Alan Tully
Chapter Seven Benjamin Franklin and Religion (pages 129–145): John Fea
Chapter Eight Benjamin Franklin and the Coming of the American Revolution (pages 146–163): Benjamin L. Carp
Chapter Nine Benjamin Franklin and Native Americans (pages 164–182): Timothy J. Shannon
Chapter Ten The Complexion of My Country: Benjamin Franklin and the Problem of Racial Diversity (pages 183–210): Nicholas Guyatt
Chapter Eleven Benjamin Franklin, Capitalism, and Slavery (pages 211–236): David Waldstreicher
Chapter Twelve Benjamin Franklin and Women (pages 237–251): Susan E. Klepp
Chapter Thirteen “The Manners and Situation of a Rising People”: Reading Franklin's Autobiography (pages 253–274): Ormond Seavey
Chapter Fourteen Poor Richard's Almanac (pages 275–289): William Pencak
Chapter Fifteen Benjamin Franklin and Journalism (pages 290–307): David Paul Nord
Chapter Sixteen Benjamin Franklin, the Science of Flow, and the Legacy of the Enlightenment (pages 308–334): Laura Rigal
Chapter Seventeen Benjamin Franklin, Associations, and Civil Society (pages 335–358): Albrecht Koschnik
Chapter Eighteen Empire and Nation (pages 359–372): Eliga H. Gould
Chapter Nineteen Franklin's Pictorial Representations of British America (pages 373–390): Lester C. Olson
Chapter Twenty American Literature and American Studies (pages 391–411): Edward Cahill
Chapter Twenty?One Benjamin Franklin's Material Cultures (pages 412–429): Megan E. Walsh
Chapter Twenty?Two Benjamin Franklin and Political Theory (pages 430–462): Jerry Weinberger
Chapter Twenty?Three Benjamin Franklin and International Relations (pages 463–478): Leonard J. Sadosky
Chapter Twenty?Four Benjamin Franklin in Memory and Popular Culture (pages 479–498): Andrew M. Schocket