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The Society for Useful Knowledge: How Benjamin Franklin and Friends Brought the Enlightenment to America by Jonathan Lyons (Hardback, 2013)
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- DescriptionBenjamin Franklin and his contemporaries brought the Enlightenment to America--an intellectual revolution that laid the foundation for the political one that followed. With the first Drudgery of settling the American colonies w well and truly past, Franklin anunced in 1743, it was high time that the colonists set about improving the lot of humankind through collaborative inquiry. From Franklin's idea emerged the American Philosophical Society, an association hosted in Philadelphia and dedicated to the harnessing of man's intellectual and creative powers for the common good. The animus behind the Society was and is a disarmingly simple one-that the value of kwledge is directly proportional to its utility. This straightforward idea has left a profound mark on American society and culture and on the very idea of America itself-and through America, on the world as a whole. From celebrated historian of kwledge Jonathan Lyons comes The Society for Useful Kwledge, telling the story of America's coming-of-age through its historic love affair with practical invention, applied science, and self-reliance. Offering fresh, original portraits of figures like Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Rush, and the inimitable, endlessly inventive Franklin, Lyons gives us vital new perspective on the American founding. He illustrates how the movement for useful kwledge is key to understanding the flow of American society and culture from colonial times to our digital present.
- Author BiographyJonathan Lyons is the author of The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization (Bloomsbury Press 2009). He served as editor and foreign correspondent for Reuters for more than 20 years. He holds a doctorate in sociology, and has taught at George Mason University, Georgetown University, and Monash University in Australia. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
Key Features
- Author(s)Jonathan Lyons
- PublisherBloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Date of Publication15/08/2013
- LanguageEnglish
- FormatHardback
- ISBN-101608195538
- ISBN-139781608195534
- SubjectHistory: Specific Subjects
Publication Data
- Place of PublicationNew York
- Country of PublicationUnited States
- ImprintBloomsbury Press
- Out-of-print date07/10/2014
- Content Note8pp color insert
Dimensions
- Weight514 g
- Width155 mm
- Height235 mm
- Spine22 mm
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