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Atlantic cousins : Benjamin Franklin and his visionary friends /
"Benjamin Franklin and his fellow thinkers of the Enlightenment are among the most intriguing people in history. In nearly all areas - science, politics, social justice, philosophy, medicine - these men and women revolutionized the world around them. Even by our standards, their ideas seem insp...
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New York :
Thunder's Mouth Press,
[2005]
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Table of Contents:
- Three men and the horrors of slavery : Whitefield, Benezet, and Sharp
- Benjamin Rush, revolution, religion, and medicine
- Paine, revolutionary zeal, and engineering
- Price and Priestley, religious dissent and revolution
- Price, Priestley, and scientific Inquiry
- Marat and Mesmer, charlatans or misunderstood scientists?
- Condorcet, revolution, and la République Française
- Brissot, revolutionary politics, and democracy
- Learning in the new era
- Epilogue : a future of progress, liberty, and justice.