David Franks

Name: David Franks
Brand: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Colonial Merchant

By: Mark Abbott Stern

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Hardcover | 14 July 2010

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288 Pages

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16.1 x 23.6 x 2.2

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David Franks, a colonial businessman from Philadelphia, was one of the most important figures in American Jewish history in the eighteenth century. This extensively researched biography illuminates not only Franks's personal dealings, but also his business life. Franks was involved with Indian trade, ship design and building, manufacturing, international trade, land speculation, westward exploration, and military provisioning. This volume follows Franks from his beginnings in a prominent Jewish family to his trials for treason and his exile in the post-revolutionary period, offering a unique portrait of one of America's forgotten patriots.

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“In this gracefully written book, Mark Abbott Stern tells the story of a Jewish man, his Christian family, and his adopted city of Philadelphia during the era that led to American independence. David Franks: Colonial Merchant is the sweeping and illuminating chronicle of a businessman’s engagement with history, the grand intersection of personal temperament with war, westward expansion, and social assimilation. Demonstrating remarkable archival scholarship, Stern writes with skill, sympathy, and mastery about a man in his times.”

—Edith B. Gelles, Stanford University

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