The Papers of Benjamin Franklin
Volume 41: September 16, 1783, through February 29, 1784
Seiten
2014
Yale University Press (Verlag)
978-0-300-20374-5 (ISBN)
Yale University Press (Verlag)
978-0-300-20374-5 (ISBN)
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The forty-first volume of the collected writings and correspondences of the American statesman, ambassador, and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin
After the signing of the definitive peace treaty on September 3, 1783, Franklin’s official duties as minister plenipotentiary diminished. He concluded a draft consular convention with France, but Great Britain did not act on the articles for a commercial agreement that he negotiated with David Hartley, and Congress did not ratify the draft treaties of commerce with Denmark and Portugal that he had sent to Philadelphia the previous summer. In his welcome leisure time, however, Franklin followed scientific developments (witnessing the first balloon ascensions in Paris), advised the French government on schemes for civic improvement (making cornbread and building coal-burning stoves), and wrote three of his most remarkable pieces about what it meant to be American.
After the signing of the definitive peace treaty on September 3, 1783, Franklin’s official duties as minister plenipotentiary diminished. He concluded a draft consular convention with France, but Great Britain did not act on the articles for a commercial agreement that he negotiated with David Hartley, and Congress did not ratify the draft treaties of commerce with Denmark and Portugal that he had sent to Philadelphia the previous summer. In his welcome leisure time, however, Franklin followed scientific developments (witnessing the first balloon ascensions in Paris), advised the French government on schemes for civic improvement (making cornbread and building coal-burning stoves), and wrote three of his most remarkable pieces about what it meant to be American.
Ellen R. Cohn is a senior research scholar in the Department of History at Yale University.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 3.10.2014 |
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Reihe/Serie | The Papers of Benjamin Franklin ; 41 |
Zusatzinfo | 8 b-w illus. |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 146 x 219 mm |
Gewicht | 1066 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Anthologien |
Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher | |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
ISBN-10 | 0-300-20374-8 / 0300203748 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-300-20374-5 / 9780300203745 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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