Benjamin Franklin's printing network : disseminating virtue in early America / Ralph Frasca.
Frasca, Ralph, 1962-
2006
Z232.F8 F83 2006 (Mapit)
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Benjamin Franklin's printing network : disseminating virtue in early America / Ralph Frasca.
Author
Frasca, Ralph, 1962-
ISBN
9780826216144 (alk. paper)
0826216145 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2006.
Language
English
Description
ix, 295 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
Z232.F8 F83 2006
Dewey Decimal Classification
686.2/092
Summary
"Explores Benjamin Franklin's network of partnerships and business relationships with printers. His network altered practices in both European and American colonial printing trades by providing capital and political influence to set up working partnerships with James Parker, Francis Childs, Benjamin Mecom, Benjamin Franklin Bache, David Hall, Anthony Armbruster, and others"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-289) and index.
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Table of contents only
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Introduction: The challenge of Franklin's printing network
The art of virtue and the virtue of the art
From apprentice to journeyman to master printer
The moral foundations of Franklin's journalism
Communicating instruction in Philadelphia
Spreading virtue to South Carolina
Network expansion from New York to the Caribbean
The political imperative of the Pennsylvania German partnerships
Franklin plants a printer in his native New England
Renegade second-generation printers
The Franklin network and the Stamp Act
Rebellion and network loyalties
The moral reform of a scurrilous press
Conclusion: God, humanity, and Franklin's legacy.

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