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UNINA9910461629103321 |
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Franklin in His Own Time [[electronic resource] ] : A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates / / edited by Kevin J. Hayes and Isabelle Bour |
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Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2011 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (241 p.) |
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Writers in their own time |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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BourIsabelle |
HayesKevin J |
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Printers - United States |
Inventors - United States |
Scientists - United States |
Statesmen - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-186) and index. |
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Contents; Introduction; Chronology; Pehr Kalm, [Speaking about Natural History, 1748]; Daniel Fisher, [Extracts from the Diary, 1755]; House of Commons, The Examination of Doctor Benjamin Franklin (1767); Joseph Priestley, [Science, Religion, and Politics in London, 1769, 1795, 1802]; Josiah Quincy, Jr., [Franklin in London, 1774-1775]; John Adams, [Franklin as a Congressman and a Diplomat, 1775-1778]; Abigail Adams, [Franklin in Boston and Paris, 1775 and 1784]; Philip Gibbes, [Two Conversations with Benjamin Franklin, 1777-1778]; Arthur Lee, [Extracts from the Journal, 1777] |
William Greene, [Franklin at Passy, 1778]John Baynes, [Franklin at Passy, 1783]; Andrew Ellicott, [This Venerable Nestor of America, 1785]; Benjamin Rush, [The Wisdom and Experience of Mellow Old Age, 1785-1789, 1805, 1806]; Winthrop Sargent, [My Dinner with Franklin, 1786]; Manasseh Cutler, [A Visit to Franklin Court, 1787]; James Madison, [Franklin during the Constitutional Convention, 1787]; Mary Stevenson Hewson, "Closing Scenes of Dr. Franklin's Life: In a Letter from an Eye- |
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Witness" (1790); John Jones, "Short Account of Dr. Franklin's Last Illness by His Attending Physician" (1790) |
Louis Lefebvre de La Roche, "On Franklin" (1800)Thomas Jefferson, [Anecdotes of Doctor Franklin, 1818 and 1821]; William Temple Franklin, [Anecdotes Relative to Dr. Franklin, 1818]; Robert Aspland, [A Conversation with Franklin's London Friends, 1821]; André Morellet, [Memories of Franklin, 1821]; Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, [A Short Account of Benjamin Franklin, 1825]; Roberts Vaux and a Canadian Numismatist, [The Sawdust Pudding Supper: Two Versions, 1835 and 1875]; Deborah Norris Logan, [Memoir of Dr. George Logan of Stenton, 1839] |
Robert Carr, "Personal Recollections of Benjamin Franklin" (1864)Permissions; Works Cited; Index |
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In his time Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was the most famous American in the world. Even those personally unacquainted with the man knew him as the author of Poor Richard's Almanack, as a pioneer in the study of electricity and a major figure in the American Enlightenment, as the creator of such life-changing innovations as the lightning rod and America's first circulating library, and as a leader of the American Revolution. His friends also knew him as a brilliant conversationalist, a great wit, an intellectual filled with curiosity, and most of all a master ane |
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UNINA9910787723303321 |
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Beyond urban bias / / edited by Ashutosh Varshney |
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Oxon [England] : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
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1-135-23513-9 |
1-315-03726-2 |
1-135-23506-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (455 p.) |
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Poor - Developing countries |
Rural poor - Developing countries |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Note generali |
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First published 1993 by Frank Cass. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; I: Introduction; Urban Bias in Perspective; I. Town-Country Struggles in Development: A Brief Overview of Ideas; Agriculture and Industrialisation; The Political Issues; II. How Urban Bias is Reversed, Neutralised or Reduced; III. Concluding Remarks; II: Cases; The Origins of Agricultural Policy in Ivory Coast 1960-86; The Policy Environment in Comparative Perspective; Producer-Price Shares; Indirect Taxation: Exchange Rate Regimes; Extension Services and Marketing; Re-Investment of Tax Revenues in Agriculture |
Farmers' IncomesThe Origins of a Favourable Policy Environment for Agriculture; Formative Experiences; Elite Landholdings; Agricultural Prices and Labour Demand; Economic Thought; Institutions, Agricultural Prices, and Public Investment: 1970-86; Agro-Industries and the Urban-Rural Alliance; New Urban-Rural Linkages; The Ressortissants and Dialogue; Côte D'Ivoire in Comparative Persepctive; Exceptions to Urban Bias in Latin America: Cuba and Costa Rica; The Setting; Cuba; Costa Rica; Conclusion; Economic Structure and the Politics of Sectoral Bias: East Asian and Other Cases; I. Introduction |
II. Class and Choice-Theoretic ApproachesIII. Rational Choice Theories; Food Markets; Markets for Factors of Production and Consumer Goods; Refinements to the Model; Cash Crop Markets; IV. The Shift from Rural |
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to Urban Bias; V. Rational Choice Analysis and the State; VI. The Rational Choice Analysis: East Asia; VII. The Political Subordination of East Asian Agriculture; East Asian Polities; Japan; Korea; Taiwan; Taiwan - Exclusionary Institutions; Taiwan - Participatory Institutions; VIII. Explaining the East Asian Puzzle; IX. The Limits of the Rational Choice Paradigm |
X. The State and AgricultureReform and Urban Bias in China; Introduction; The Rise and Fall of Agricultural Incomes; Declining Agricultural Incomes: 1985 to the Present; Pricing Structure; Scissors Effect; IOUs; The Rise of Rural Industry and Peasant Incomes; Rural Industry and Narrowing of the Urban-Rural Gap; Urban Bias and the Power of the Communist State; Rural Bias in the East and South-east Asian Rice Economy: Indonesia in Comparative Perspective; Models of Price Formation; The Institutional Context for Setting Rice Prices |
A Statistical Analysis of Variance in Domestic Prices for Rice Relative to World PricesThe Political Economy of Rice Prices in Indonesia; Self-Limited Empowerment: Democracy, Economic Development and Rural India; I. The Changing Shape of India's Political Universe; Why Has Rural Power Risen: The Role of Democracy; II. Policy Outcomes for Farm Groups; Terms of the Existing Debate; Resolving the Debate: Constructing a Return Index and Its Results; III. The Disjunction Between the Political and the Economic: Proximate Causes; (i) The Role of Technology |
(ii) The Demand Constraint: How the Poor Affect the Income of Surplus Farmers |
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First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |
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