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Benjamin Franklin's printing network : disseminating virtue in early America

"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
eBook, English, ©2006
University of Missouri Press, Columbia, ©2006
History
1 online resource (ix, 295 pages) : illustrations, portraits
9780826264923, 9780826216144, 0826264921, 0826216145
191934829
Benjamin Franklin's Printing Network Disseminating Virtue in Early America; Contents; Preface; Introduction The Challenge of Franklin's Printing Network; 1 The Art of Virtue and the Virtue of the Art; 2 From Apprentice to Journeyman to Master Printer; 3 The Moral Foundations of Franklin's Journalism; 4 Communicating Instruction in Philadelphia; 5 Spreading Virtue to South Carolina; 6 Network Expansion from New York to the Caribbean; 7 The Political Imperative of the Pennsylvania German Partnerships; 8 Franklin Plants a Printer in His Native New England; 9 Renegade Second-Generation Printers. 10 The Franklin Network and the Stamp Act11 Rebellion and Network Loyalties; 12 The Moral Reform of a Scurrilous Press; Conclusion God, Humanity, and Franklin's Legacy; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index