Patriot-improvers: 1743-1768
Title | Patriot-improvers: 1743-1768 PDF eBook |
Author | Whitfield J. Bell (Jr.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | United States |
ISBN | 9780871692269 |
Patriot-improvers
Title | Patriot-improvers PDF eBook |
Author | Whitfield J. Bell (Jr.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 468 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | United States |
ISBN |
Patriot-improvers: 1743-1768
Title | Patriot-improvers: 1743-1768 PDF eBook |
Author | Whitfield J. Bell (Jr.) |
Publisher | American Philosophical Society |
Pages | 562 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780871692269 |
When Benjamin Franklin adopted John Bartram's 1739 idea of bringing together the "virtuosi" of the colonies to promote inquiries into "natural secrets, arts and syances," the result was, in 1743, the founding of the American Philosophical Society. Bell records the early years of the Society through sketches of its first members, those elected between 1743 and 1769. This volume includes biographies of some of the Society's best known members such as Franklin, David Rittenhouse, John Bartram, Benjamin Rush, John Dickinson, Thomas Hopkinson and many lesser known merchants, artisans, farmers, physicians, lawyers and clergymen with familiar surnames such as Biddle, Colden, and Morris. Illustrations.
Schools for Statesmen
Title | Schools for Statesmen PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew H. Browning |
Publisher | University Press of Kansas |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2022-06-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 070063309X |
“Whatever Principles are imbibed at College will run thro’ a Man’s whole future Conduct.” —William Livingston, signer of the Constitution Schools for Statesmen explores the fifty-five individual Framers of the Constitution in close detail and argues that their different educations help explain their divergent positions at the 1787 Constitutional Convention. Those educations ranged from outlawed Irish “hedge schools” to England’s venerable Inns of Court, from the grammar schools of New England to ambitious new academies springing up on the Carolina frontier. The more traditional schools that focused on Greek and Latin classics (Oxford, Harvard, Yale, William and Mary) were deeply conservative institutions resistant to change. But the Scottish colleges and the newer American schools (Princeton, Philadelphia, King's College) introduced students to a Scottish Enlightenment curriculum that fostered more radical, forward-thinking leaders. Half of the Framers had no college education and were often self-taught or had private tutors; most were quiet at the convention, although a few stubbornly opposed the new ideas they were hearing. Nearly all the delegates who took the lead at the convention had been educated at the newer, innovative colleges, but of the seven who rejected the new Constitution, three had gone to the older traditional schools, while three others had not gone to college at all. Schools for Statesmen is an unprecedented analysis of the sharply divergent educations of the Framers of the Constitution. It reveals the ways in which the Constitutional Convention, rather than being a counterrevolution by conservative elites, was dominated by forward-thinking innovators who had benefited from the educational revolution beginning in the mid-eighteenth century. Andrew Browning offers a new and persuasive explanation of key disagreements among the Framers and the process by which they were able to break through the impasse that threatened the convention; he provides a fresh understanding of the importance of education in what has been called the "Critical Period" of US history. Schools for Statesmen takes a deep dive into the diverse educational world of the eighteenth century and sheds new light on the origins of the US Constitution.
Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan
Title | Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan PDF eBook |
Author | Kerby A. Miller |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 817 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0195045130 |
Publisher's description: Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan is a monumental study of early Irish Protestant and Catholic immigration to America. Through exhaustive research and analysis of the migrants' letters and memoirs, the editors explore why the immigrants left Ireland, how they adapted to colonial and revolutionary America, and how their experiences and attitudes shaped society, culture and politics, and created modern Irish and Irish-American identities, in America and Ireland alike.
Patriot-improvers: 1768
Title | Patriot-improvers: 1768 PDF eBook |
Author | Whitfield J. Bell (Jr.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | United States |
ISBN |
Benjamin Franklin and the Politics of Improvement
Title | Benjamin Franklin and the Politics of Improvement PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Craig Houston |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2008-11-18 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0300152396 |
This fascinating book explores Benjamin Franklin’s social and political thought. Although Franklin is often considered “the first American,” his intellectual world was cosmopolitan. An active participant in eighteenth-century Atlantic debates over the modern commercial republic, Franklin combined abstract analyses with practical proposals. Houston treats Franklin as shrewd, creative, and engaged—a lively thinker who joined both learned controversies and political conflicts at home and abroad. Drawing on meticulous archival research, Houston examines such tantalizing themes as trade and commerce, voluntary associations and civic militias, population growth and immigration policy, political union and electoral institutions, freedom and slavery. In each case, he shows how Franklin urged the improvement of self and society. Engagingly written and richly illustrated, this book provides a compelling portrait of Franklin, a fresh perspective on American identity, and a vital account of what it means to be practical.