Benjamin Franklin's Vision of American Community: A Study in Rhetorical Iconology

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Univ of South Carolina Press, 2004 - 323 Seiten
"Olson contends that attention to the visual images created in each of these roles dramatizes fundamental changes in Franklin's sensibility concerning British America. In 1754 Franklin was an American Whig supporter of the British Empire's constitutional monarchy. During the late 1750s and early 1760s he veered toward increasing the power of the Crown over Pennsylvania by changing the colony's form of government before ultimately rejecting constitutional monarchy and advocating republican politics during the 1770s and 1780s. The shifts in Franklin's fundamental political commitments are among the most arresting aspects of his life. Benjamin Franklin's Vision of American Community highlights these changes as it examines his pictorial representations of British America through several decades."--BOOK JACKET.

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An Orientation and Conceptual
3
Franklins Earliest Commentary Envisioning Colony Union
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JOIN or DIE 1754
27
her Colonies REDUCd 176566
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WE ARE ONE 1776
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Libertas Americana 178283
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Franklins Verbal Images Representing
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National Character and the Great Seal of the United States
232
Abbreviations
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Notes
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General Index
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Media Index
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