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The American Revolution, 1763-1787

Open Access Article 

  • Newman, S.P.  (2009) Benjamin Franklin and the leather-apron men: the politics of class in eighteenth-century Philadelphia. Journal of American Studies, 43(2), pp. 161-175. Available here: http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/8324/. 

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