When London was capital of America [electronic resource] / Julie Flavell.
2010
DA688 .F57 2010eb
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Title
When London was capital of America [electronic resource] / Julie Flavell.
Author
Flavell, Julie.
ISBN
9780300137392 (hbk. alk. paper)
9780300168198 (cl alk. paper)
9780300178135
9780300168198 (e-book)
9780300168198 (cl alk. paper)
9780300178135
9780300168198 (e-book)
Publication Details
New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2010.
Language
English
Description
xii, 305 p. : ill., maps.
Call Number
DA688 .F57 2010eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.813/042109033
Summary
Benjamin Franklin secretly loved London and in the decade before the outbreak of the American Revolution, thousands of his fellow colonists flocked to the city. This book recreates the city's hey day as the centre of an empire that encompassed North America and the West Indies.
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Benjamin Franklin secretly loved London and in the decade before the outbreak of the American Revolution, thousands of his fellow colonists flocked to the city. This book recreates the city's hey day as the centre of an empire that encompassed North America and the West Indies.
Benjamin Franklin secretly loved London and in the decade before the outbreak of the American Revolution, thousands of his fellow colonists flocked to the city. This book recreates the city's hey day as the centre of an empire that encompassed North America and the West Indies.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [252]-290) and index.
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Table of Contents
An American city in Europe
The London world of Henry Laurens
Upstairs, downstairs: master and slave in Georgian London
English lessons in London: a tale of two teenagers
Young and rich in fleet street: the decadents abroad
A Long Island Yankee in the city
"The handsome Englishman"
London's American landscape
Franklin and son in London
'The most cautious man I have ever seen': Ben Franklin's London career.
The London world of Henry Laurens
Upstairs, downstairs: master and slave in Georgian London
English lessons in London: a tale of two teenagers
Young and rich in fleet street: the decadents abroad
A Long Island Yankee in the city
"The handsome Englishman"
London's American landscape
Franklin and son in London
'The most cautious man I have ever seen': Ben Franklin's London career.