An essay upon projects, 1697: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
Defoe in this book ran again and again into sound suggestions that first came to be realized long after he was dead. Upon one subject, indeed, the education of women, we have only just now caught him up. Defoe wrote the book in1692 or 1693, when his age was a year or two over thirty, and he published it in 1697.
Daniel Defoe was a writer, journalist and spy. He was one of the first authors to write a novel. In An Essay Upon Projects Defoe defines the word project and enlarges on the concept including looking at the economic ramifications of several projects he was personally familiar with.
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One of his first works, An Essay upon Projects (1697), was a series of proposals that touched on such topics as banking, highway maintenance, education, and insurance. Defoe also wrote about contemporary religious issues, and was charged with libel for one pamphlet that responded to a proposed bill to outlaw occasional conformity, the Shortest Way with the Dissenters (1702).
Editions for An Essay upon Projects: 1402147724 (Paperback published in 2004), (Kindle Edition), 1540565173 (Paperback published in 2016), (Kindle Editio.
First published in 1697 as 'An essay upon projects'. Reproduction of original from the British Library. Moore, 16 English Short Title Catalog, ESTCT68187. Electronic data. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale, 2003. Page image (PNG). Digitized image of the microfilm version produced in Woodbridge, CT by Research Publications, 1982-2002 (later.
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