Benjamin Franklin and the Politics of Improvement

Contents

Acknowledgments.................................................................vii Author's Note...................................................................ix Map of Philadelphia by Nicholas Scull and George Heap, 1752.....................xii Map of British North America, c. 1750...........................................xiii Map of the British Atlantic World, c. 1763......................................xiv Introduction....................................................................1 1. Commerce.....................................................................22 2. Association..................................................................60 3. Population...................................................................106 4. Union........................................................................147 5. Slavery......................................................................200 Epilogue........................................................................217 Appendix: Franklin and Weber....................................................225 Chronology................ ... read full excerpt from Benjamin Franklin and the Politics of Improvement ebook