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Lesser, S. R. "Benjamin Franklin in England, 1765-1775." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.371701.

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Sanches, Ana Maria Brito. "Virtude, trabalho e riqueza: a concepção de sociedade civil em Benjamin Franklin." Universidade de São Paulo, 2006. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8133/tde-27022007-110740/.

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Neste trabalho examinamos a concepção de sociedade civil no pensamento social e político de Benjamin Franklin, cujas idéias exerceram grande influência na formação da mentalidade do homem do Novo Mundo. Essa mentalidade inaugura um novo modo de conceber a vida em sociedade, exaltando tudo o que se opõe aos valores da velha ordem. Contra o princípio da honra, os títulos de nobreza e a posição social dos indivíduos, ela exalta a virtude republicana, celebra o trabalho e reclama o respeito à dignidade humana, intrínseca a todos os homens independente da sua condição de nascimento. Não por acaso, virtude e trabalho aparecem como categorias centrais no pensamento de Benjamin Franklin. Longe de degradante, ele entendia o trabalho como energia vital do homem e expressão de sua liberdade. Além de ser um meio para obtenção da riqueza, o trabalho servia também para promover a virtude na medida em que libertava o homem da condição de pobreza, servilismo e dependência da boa vontade dos outros. A tese aí era de que o homem não pode ser considerado verdadeiramente livre se não for, ao mesmo tempo, politicamente livre e economicamente independente. Nesse sentido, sua concepção de sociedade se apresenta articulada com princípios que remontam a uma antiga tradição. É principalmente no ideal da civitas libera, ou Estado livre, que ela se inspira. Esse ideal havia predominado na Roma republicana de Tito Lívio, foi revivido e adaptado no renascimento italiano, sobretudo por Machiavel, e retomado no século XVII pelos defensores da causa republicana inglesa. No século XVIII, essa influência chegou até as colônias inglesas na América e teve em Franklin um dos seus principais representantes.<br>In this work we inspect the conception of civil society in the social and political ideas of Benjamin Franklin, which exerted large influence on the mentality constitution of the New World´s man. This mentality had initiated a new way to conceive the life in society exalting all that opposed the values of the old order. Against the principle of honor, the nobility titles, and the individual social position it exalts the republican virtue, celebrates the work, and claims respect for human dignity inherent to all men, not depending on their birth condition. Not by chance, virtue and work appears like central categories in the ideas of Benjamin Franklin. Far from conceiving it as shameful, he comprehended the work as the man´s vital energy and expression of his freedom. More than a way to obtain wealth, the work also attended to promote the virtue once it released man from the poverty and servility condition as much as from the dependence of the others good will. This theses utters that man couldn´t be considered free if he wasn´t at the same time politically free and economic independent. In this way, his conception of society seems articulated with doctrines that ascend an ancient tradition. It is mainly inspired by the ideal of civitas libera or the Free State. This ideal had predominated in the Republican Rome of Tito Livio, and then was relived and adapted by the Italian Renascence, mainly by Machiavelli, and was recovered by the defenders of the English republican cause, in the seventeenth century. This influence came to the English colonies in America in the eighteenth century, and it had in Franklin one of its main representatives.

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Ramdohr, Anne-Sophie [Verfasser]. "Auswertung der Notfalleinsatzprotokolle am Campus Benjamin Franklin Charité Berlin / Anne-Sophie Ramdohr." Berlin : Medizinische Fakultät Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1241538530/34.

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Egloff, Nancy Dieter. ""Six Nations of Ignorant Savages": Benjamin Franklin and the Iroquois League of Nations." W&M ScholarWorks, 1987. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625405.

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Tnaïnchi, Leïla. "La correspondance de Benjamin Franklin, psyché de la France d'Ancien Régime (1776-1790)." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 2023. http://www.theses.fr/2023UBFCC039.

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Le séjour français de Benjamin Franklin entre 1776 et 1785 en qualité d'envoyé des États-Unis laisse une image forte, celle de la popularité remarquable du diplomate, qui déborde le cercle des bureaux ministériels pour investir l'espace public. Cette étude entend mettre en lumière les rapports de Franklin avec ce que certains contemporains, tel que Necker, commencent à appeler « l'opinion publique », dans le but de brosser un portrait des Français à travers le miroir de l'image publique aux multiples facettes d'un étranger célèbre, sans déterminisme et dans une période que je nommerai simplement, pour écarter autant que faire se peut toute tendance à la téléologie, « la fin du XVIIIe siècle ». Cette recherche s'appuie sur l'important recueil des « Papers of Benjamin Franklin » et ainsi sur l'intégralité de la correspondance française de l'Américain, forte de près de deux-mille épistoliers et de plus de cinq-mille-cinq-cents lettres. D'autres sources viennent compléter ce corpus : les écrits de Franklin traduits en français et circulant dans le royaume, mais aussi bien d'autres imprimés, la presse européenne francophone du moment, les fonds des archives du Ministère des Affaires étrangères de la Courneuve, et enfin la foisonnante iconographie ayant trait au personnage. Ce vaste corpus nous offre une bonne appréhension des Français de cette période à travers l'étude de nombreuses thématiques, telles que les sciences, les techniques, la politique, les salons, la franc-maçonnerie, la cour, le commerce ou encore l'armée. Cette recherche fait également apparaître la vision de l'Amérique et des États-Unis qu'entretiennent les Français et offre ainsi une analyse des réelles motivations des sujets de Louis XVI qui sont prêts à commercer avec les Américains et à leur accorder des crédits, des postulants pour l'émigration dans le Nouveau Monde et des militaires volontaires pour rejoindre le théâtre de la guerre<br>The French stay of Benjamin Franklin between 1776 and 1785 as an envoy of the United States leaves a strong image, that of the remarkable popularity of the diplomat, who goes beyond the circle of ministerial offices to invest the public space. This study intends to highlight Franklin's relationships with what some contemporaries, such as Necker, began to call "public opinion", with the aim of painting a portrait of the French through the mirror of the public image with multiple facets of a famous foreigner, without determinism and in a period that I will simply name, to exclude as much as possible any teleology, "the end of the 18th century". This research is based on the important collection of “Papers of Benjamin Franklin” and thus on the entirety of the French correspondence of the American, comprising nearly two thousand letter writers and more than five thousand five hundred letters. Other sources complete this corpus: Franklin's writings translated into French and circulating in the kingdom, but also many other printed materials, the French-speaking European press of the moment, the archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of La Courneuve, and finally the abundant iconography relating to the character. This vast corpus offers us a good understanding of the French people of this period through the study of numerous themes, such as sciences, techniques, politics, salons, Freemasonry, the court, commerce or even the army. This research also reveals the vision of America and the United States held by the French people and thus offers an analysis of the real motivations of the subjects of Louis XVI who are ready to trade with the Americans and grant them credits, of applicants for emigration to the New World and of military volunteers to join the theater of war

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Lerat, Christian. "Benjamin Franklin philosophe de l'ordre et de la liberté : profil religieux moral et politique." Bordeaux 3, 1985. http://www.theses.fr/1985BOR3ET11.

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Lerat, Christian. "Benjamin Franklin philosophe de l'ordre et de la liberté profil religieux, moral et politique." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1989. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb375949088.

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Cooper, Graham S. "Broad Shoulders, Hidden Voices: The Legacy of Integration at New Orleans' Benjamin Franklin High School." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2015. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1971.

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This paper seeks to insert the voices of students into the historical discussion of public school integration in New Orleans. While history tends to ignore the memories of children that experienced integration firsthand, this paper argues that those memories can alter our understanding of that history. In 1963, Benjamin Franklin High School was the first public high school in New Orleans to integrate. Black students knowingly made sacrifices to transfer to Ben Franklin, as they were socially and politically conscious teenagers. Black students formed alliances with some white teachers and students to help combat the racist environment that still dominated their school and city. Ben Franklin students were maturing adolescents worked to establish their identities in this newly integrated, intellectually advanced space. This paper explores the way in which students – of differing racial, socio-economic, religious, educational, and political upbringings – all struggled to navigate self and space in this discordant society.

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Berry, Jefferson. "The Schemes of Public Parties: William Allen, Benjamin Franklin and The College of Philadelphia, 1756." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2010. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/106604.

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History<br>M.A.<br>Chief Justice William Allen and Benjamin Franklin met hundreds of times prior to Franklin's departure to London in 1757, and yet very little has been written about Allen. For over twenty years, Franklin and Allen worked closely on a variety of municipal improvements: the library, the hospital, the school, the fire company and many other projects that were the first of their kind in America. And while Allen was Franklin's main benefactor for close to twenty-five years --it was Allen's endorsement of Franklin that got him his job as Postmaster-- Franklin mentions him only twice in his <italic>Autobiography<br>Temple University--Theses

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Hartsock, Pamela A. ""Tracing the pattern among the tangled threads" : the composition and publication history of the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9999293.

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Ramsey, Colin Tucker. "The labor of writing : the literary cultures of the artisan class and the "lower sorts" during the era of the American revolution /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3052239.

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Möser, Britta A. "Politische Autobiographien in der frühen amerikanischen Republik : Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson und James Monroe /." Frankfurt am Main : P. Lang, 1997. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb392931495.

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Lienhardt, Claire. "Le Bonhomme Richard de Benjamin Franklin à la conquête de l'Europe : la diffusion d'un best-seller américain en France, en Grande-Bretagne et dans les Etats allemands des années 1770 à 1830." Paris 1, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA010673.

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Benjamin Franklin, auteur d'un célèbre almanach en Amérique au XVIIIe siècle, le Poor Richard almanack, écrit pour l’Edition de 1758 une "préface" qui, tirée à part, va devenir très célèbre dans le monde occidental. Ce petit livre expose le discours d'un vieil homme qui donne à ses voisins des conseils d'assiduité, de vigilance et de tempérance dans le travail, afin de dégager de l'argent pour vivre correctement et avoir une position sociale estimable. Le propos est parsemé d'une multitude de proverbes, empruntes au Poor Richard almanack, que le vieil homme lit depuis des années. L'objet de cette thèse est la recherche des causes du succès de cet opuscule américain en Grande-Bretagne, en France et dans les états allemands, des années 1770, début de sa carrière éditoriale européenne, à 1830. L'examen de quatre-vingts éditions du livre, recherchées dans les fonds des pays choisis, a permis de déterminer que les lecteurs du Poor Richard étaient très variés, du paysan au noble, avec cependant une majorité de gens issus des classes moyennes montantes. Quant à son succès, il a des causes multiples : l'aura fantastique de Franklin dans l’Europe pré-révolutionnaire, aura liée à sa notoriété scientifique et surtout à son action politique pour les jeunes États-Unis ; l'abondante présence de proverbes ; dans le texte, proverbes qui sont alors encore très prisés ; et un contenu moral et économique à la fois pratique, traditionnel et nouveau dans son fond, qui possède des atouts pour séduire le plus grand nombre lors de cette époque charnière de la fin des lumières et du début du capitalisme.

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Micheel, Anita Marie [Verfasser]. "Die Versorgungsrealität der extrakraniellen Carotisstenose am Campus Benjamin Franklin der Charité von 1999 - 2013 / Anita Marie Micheel." Berlin : Medizinische Fakultät Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 2021. http://d-nb.info/123498279X/34.

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Milhorn, Edward Robert. "An application of contemporary technical writing standards to Benjamin Franklin's works." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2004. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-0716104-160527/unrestricted/MilhornE080204f.pdf.

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Thesis (M.A.)--East Tennessee State University, 2004.<br>Title from electronic submission form. ETSU ETD database URN: etd-0716104-160527 Includes bibliographical references. Also available via Internet at the UMI web site.

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Webster, Daniel Joseph. "Experiencing the World of Franklin: The Making of an Immersive and Interactive Historical Exhibit." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5562.

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This thesis involves the creation of a historically-themed museum element. The element, titled “Improving Community,” is a virtual interactive game that allows players to explore certain realities of colonial American life. Within the game, players are presented with a number of civic-related issues that existed throughout the eighteenth century, and they are then given options to improve the situation. Interactivity and immersion are key features of the game, and they have been incorporated so that players may engage with the past and assume a more active role in the process of historical reconstruction. Research for the games draws mostly upon historical primary sources, including first-hand accounts, letters, diaries, periodicals, pamphlets, meeting minutes, and legal documents. In addition, the process of developing the games was informed by a number of secondary source works, and therefore this study inspects the ways in which “Improving Community” fits within the ongoing scholarly debates. Ultimately this project contributes to the field of public history by demonstrating the usefulness of games as a tool for historical exhibition. “Improving Community” is both entertaining and educational, and as a result, the game provides individuals with a unique outlet for exploring and experiencing the past.<br>ID: 031001287; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Title from PDF title page (viewed February 26, 2013).; Thesis (M.A.)--University of Central Florida, 2012.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-120).<br>M.A.<br>Masters<br>History<br>Arts and Humanities<br>History; Public History

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Lena, Alberto. "In search of a nation : Benjamin Franklin and the creation of identity in the United States of America, 1751 - 1790." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1994. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.387142.

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Eberly, Kurt Jeffrey. "Pennsylvanians, Foreign Relations, and Politics, 1775-1790." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1297560596.

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Quante, Sina [Verfasser]. "Sicherheit der Thrombolysetherapie bei Patienten mit ischämischem Schlaganfall ohne bekannten Ereigniszeitpunkt : eine Beobachtungsstudie an Patienten im Campus Benjamin Franklin / Sina Quante." Berlin : Medizinische Fakultät Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1079525300/34.

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Ayers, Hannah R. "Founding Freemasons "Ancient" and "Modern" Masons in the founding era of America with particular emphasis on Masons Benjamin Franklin and George Washington /." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 2008. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.

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Krug, Daniela [Verfasser]. "P.L.I.F. : Posteriore lumbale interkorporelle Fusion Methode, Indikation und klinische Verlaufskontrolle im Zeitraum von 1995 bis 2000 im Universitätsklinikum Benjamin-Franklin / Daniela Krug." Berlin : Medizinische Fakultät Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 2008. http://d-nb.info/1023232065/34.

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Ipczynski, Rainer [Verfasser]. "Patienten mit refraktärer Sprue : eine retrospektive Analyse des Patientenguts am Universitätsklinikum Benjamin Franklin im Verlaufszeitraum von 1993 bis 2005 hinsichtlich der Ätiologie, Diagnostik, Therapie und Prognose / Rainer Ipczynski." Berlin : Medizinische Fakultät Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 2013. http://d-nb.info/1031097929/34.

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Caldeira, Ana Paula Sampaio. "O bibliotecário perfeito: o historiador Ramiz Galvão na Biblioteca Nacional." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/13985.

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Submitted by Ana Paula Sampaio Caldeira (paideia@ig.com.br) on 2015-07-02T01:50:37Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese_Ana Paula Sampaio Caldeira_versão final_pós defesa.pdf: 7814155 bytes, checksum: e6992297aa93e57c6df2a4585db43833 (MD5)<br>Approved for entry into archive by Rafael Aguiar (rafael.aguiar@fgv.br) on 2015-08-26T19:25:19Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese_Ana Paula Sampaio Caldeira_versão final_pós defesa.pdf: 7814155 bytes, checksum: e6992297aa93e57c6df2a4585db43833 (MD5)<br>Approved for entry into archive by Marcia Bacha (marcia.bacha@fgv.br) on 2015-08-28T12:14:29Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese_Ana Paula Sampaio Caldeira_versão final_pós defesa.pdf: 7814155 bytes, checksum: e6992297aa93e57c6df2a4585db43833 (MD5)<br>Made available in DSpace on 2015-08-28T12:14:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese_Ana Paula Sampaio Caldeira_versão final_pós defesa.pdf: 7814155 bytes, checksum: e6992297aa93e57c6df2a4585db43833 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-06-26<br>In 1870, the young and virtually unknown Benjamin Franklin Ramiz Galvão was appointed to the position of director of the National Library; he left his position twelve years later, already as a renowned scholar, to become the tutor of the grandchildren of D. Pedro II. During the period in which he was in charge of that institution, Ramiz Galvão planned to make that space the library of the Brazilian nation. That meant creating an institution whose functions were to safeguard the Brazilian documentary heritage, make it available to specialized groups, and encourage studies on the history and geography of the country. The goal was to make the National Library a place of reference, consonant with their European counterparts and in dialogue with the national literate media. In this context, Galvão had a fundamental role in the creation of a network of sociability that linked him to scholars, booksellers, bibliophiles and librarians from different parts of Brazil, America and Europe. This doctoral dissertation evaluates the Ramiz Galvão’s proposal to recast the National Library, trying to associate it with a larger project of construction of the Brazilian nation. For this, three elements considered as the main factors in the process of building a national Library were investigated: 1) the creation of a service routine, which was able to transform a small space with books of the former Royal Library into the most important library in Brazil; 2) the effort of acquiring and selecting a Brazilian documentary heritage, and making it available in publications, such as the Anais da Biblioteca Nacional (Proceedings of the National Library) and the Catálogo da Exposição de História do Brasil (Catalog of the Exhibition of History of Brazil), which are two of his most important works as a director; and 3) the role of Ramiz Galvão as a cultural mediator in the Brazilian literate environment of the late nineteenth century.<br>Em 1870, o jovem e praticamente desconhecido Benjamin Franklin Ramiz Galvão foi nomeado para ocupar o cargo de diretor da Biblioteca Nacional, posto do qual saiu doze anos depois, já como intelectual consagrado, para assumir a função de tutor dos netos de D. Pedro II. Durante o período em que esteve à frente desta instituição, Ramiz Galvão projetou fazer daquele espaço a biblioteca da nação brasileira. Isso significava construir uma instituição cuja função fosse salvaguardar o patrimônio documental brasileiro, torná-lo disponível a um público especializado e estimular estudos sobre a história e a geografia do país. O objetivo era fazer da Biblioteca Nacional um lugar de referência, sintonizada com suas congêneres europeias e em diálogo com os meios letrados nacionais. Nesse sentido, a atuação de Galvão foi fundamental para a construção de uma rede de sociabilidade que o ligava a estudiosos, livreiros, bibliófilos e bibliotecários de diversos lugares do Brasil, da América e da Europa. Esta tese analisa a proposta de reformulação da Biblioteca Nacional empreendida por Ramiz Galvão, buscando associá-la a um projeto maior de construção da nação brasileira. Para isso, investigaremos três elementos que consideramos principais desse trabalho de edificação de uma Biblioteca nacional: 1) a construção de uma rotina de serviços, que foi capaz de transformar o pequeno espaço com livros da antiga Biblioteca Real na mais importante biblioteca do Brasil; 2) o esforço de aquisição e de seleção de um patrimônio documental brasileiro e sua divulgação em publicações como os Anais da Biblioteca Nacional e o Catálogo da Exposição de História do Brasil, dois de seus mais importantes empreendimentos como diretor; 3) a atuação de Ramiz Galvão como mediador cultural no ambiente letrado brasileiro do final do século XIX.

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Rector, Sarah Louise. "Benjamin Franklin's 1776 Continental currency design an American propaganda /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 64 p, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1338865471&sid=7&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Davis, Kiersten Claire. "Secondhand Chinoiserie and the Confucian Revolutionary: Colonial America's Decorative Arts "After the Chinese Taste"." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2008. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/1465.

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This thesis explores the implications of chinoiserie, or Western creations of Chinese-style decorative arts, upon an eighteenth century colonial American audience. Chinese products such as tea, porcelain, and silk, and goods such as furniture and wallpaper displaying Chinese motifs of distant exotic lands, had become popular commodities in Europe by the eighteenth century. The American colonists, who were primarily culturally British, thus developed a taste for chinoiserie fashions and wares via their European heritage. While most European countries had direct access to the China trade, colonial Americans were banned from any direct contact with the Orient by the British East India Company. They were relegated to creating their own versions of these popular designs and products based on their own interpretations of British imports. Americans also created a mental construct of China from philosophical writings of their European contemporaries, such as Voltaire, who often envisioned China as a philosopher's paradise. Some colonial Americans, such as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, fit their understanding of China within their own Enlightenment worldview. For these individuals, chinoiserie in American homes not only reflected the owners' desires to keep up with European fashions, but also carried associations with Enlightenment thought. The latter half of the eighteenth century was a time of escalating conflict as Americans colonists began to assert the right to govern themselves. Part of their struggle for freedom from England was a desire to rid themselves of the British imports, such as tea, silk, and porcelain, on which they had become so dependent by making those goods themselves. Americans in the eighteenth century had many of the natural resources to create such products, but often lacked the skill or equipment for turning their raw materials into finished goods. This thesis examines the colonists' attempts to create their own chinoiserie products, despite these odds, in light of revolutionary sentiments of the day. Chinoiserie in colonial America meshed with neoclassical décor, thereby reflecting the Enlightenment and revolutionary spirit of the time, and revealing a complex colonial worldview filled with trans-oceanic dialogues and cross-cultural currents.

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Fecko, Kristin. "The Relevance of Benjamin Franklin's and Thomas Jefferson's Technical Writing for Modern Communicators." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2014. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/6270.

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Today's technical communicators enjoy an increasingly broader role and influence in the workplace, and are often given latitude to use engaging rhetoric and personal touches in many kinds of communications. Historical documents, particularly those that are substantially removed from our own era, can offer fresh approaches and insight into the enduring elements of successful communication. This study explores the technical writings of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson and considers their usefulness to professionals today. Although the political writing of Franklin and Jefferson is more familiar, both men frequently wrote about scientific and technical subjects and were well-known in their day for these documents. Franklin created a captivating persona and arguments which carried emotional and logical appeal. Jefferson was a student of ancient rhetoric and applied classical principles of arrangement to guide readers. His fondness for statistical records led to a skill in presenting numerical data and other types of information in creative, efficient ways. By using tone, language, and description, both Franklin and Jefferson created technical narratives that are equally informative and aesthetically pleasing. The contemporary era of technical communication has been shaped by positivism, the plain language movement, and humanism, among other significant trends. Franklin's and Jefferson's approaches to technical communication both support and challenge the guiding philosophies of these movements. Their styles are reviewed in this study against the context of modern approaches. Opportunities for further historical study are also offered, including additional writings of our Founding Fathers and technical writing from the turn of the twentieth century.<br>M.A.<br>Masters<br>English<br>Arts and Humanities<br>English; Technical Communications Track

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Wrightson, Nicholas Mikus. "Franklin's networks : aspects of British Atlantic print culture, science, and communication c.1730-60." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670081.

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Ambuske, James Patrick. "Minting America coinage and the contestation of American identity, 1775-1800 /." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1164981401.

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Craig, Mark. "The Rhetoric of Benjamin Franklin as an Ethical Model for the Practice of Sales." 2014. http://digital.library.duq.edu/u?/etd,197212.

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The world of the sales representative is rhetorical in substance and in action. In the examination of the current communicative environment of the capital equipment salesperson, the literature demonstrates that the role can be characterized primarily by being accountable for revenues and quotas. Additionally, the role is one that operates at the periphery of organizations and is somewhat autonomous from the day-to-day operations of the firm by which the salesperson is employed. A third characteristic that comes to the fore is the constant emphasis on building and maintaining relationships with the stakeholders in the interests of the company. These stakeholders involve relationships among customers and prospective customers and among supervisors, peers, partners, suppliers, manufacturers, administrators for billing, and other support roles, as well as the marketing and other facets of the very organization by which the salesperson is employed. Fourth, the salesperson has to operate in the rhetorical venue of constantly persuading these stakeholders. The fifth and final characteristic of the environment that comes to the fore is the fact that the salesperson's role is perceived as one that is inherently deceitful and breaches ethical boundaries. <br> There is a definitely a tension between ethics and sales. This tension between sales and ethics is illuminated extensively in the majority of literature on the subject of sales ethics. With the belief that salesperson must be a liar in order to succeed, as has been shown previously and the implications of the lies being so severe and also at the same time the implications of not succeeding being just as severe if not more so, how does a person succeed in sales while maintaining the sense of integrity that is mandated personally and professionally, honestly, morally, legally, and ethically? The answer to this question begins by examining Alasdair MacIntyre's notion of the practice. By entering into a practice of sales, one relies on the Aristotelian idea that all activity should be guided by virtue and aimed at the good of society. Additionally, by entering into a practice guided by virtue, one can complete a unified life. It consists of complexity, goods internal to the practice, and its own standards of excellence. The successful practitioner of sales embodies passion, a lifelong commitment to excellence, and the virtues of honesty, ambition, friendliness, wittiness and tact, justice, and courage. To accomplish the practitioner's personal narrative must be consistent with this view of sales and the character formed by the habitual display of the virtues must fit into the practice of sales. In addition, the commitment and passion for sales must be congruent with one's narrative to be in the practice. Practitioners of sales must learn the nuances of the companies that they represent. They must develop the knowledge of sales techniques, negotiation techniques, and overall knowledge of the business. Identifying and engaging the assistance of formal and informal mentors with integrity accelerates this learning. <br> This project illuminates the rhetoric of Benjamin Franklin as a model to follow to enter into such practices. Franklin, very similar to Aristotle and MacIntyre relied on the idea of phronesis to guide him in his business affairs. Practical wisdom is the specific type of wisdom that Franklin was concerned about when he talked about wisdom in his previous works. His work has influenced the American democratic society for the many proverbs that he wrote in his works. Practical wisdom is involved with doing what is good, whether in private or public situations, for the betterment of everybody. This emphasizes the importance of utilitarianism to Franklin’s views. This kind of propensity for practical wisdom is reflected in his numerous proverbs, Poor Richard’s Almanac. He intended the proverbs in the book to be used across all nations to be wiser about their life. Franklin provides a fine example of rhetorically robust, ethical practitioner for sales professionals seeking to practice their craft with integrity.<br>McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts;<br>Communication and Rhetorical Studies<br>PhD<br>Dissertation;

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Alves, Mário Correia 1953. "Convergência de visões na fundação de um país: Benjamin Franklin e Thomas Jefferson." Doctoral thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/3477.

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Mendonça, Maria do Carmo Nunes Ferraz. "A história da electricidade no século XVIII e o ensino da física." Doctoral thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/2552.

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Barr, George. "U.S. Naval expansion in the Gilded Age." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/7980.

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U.S. naval expansion is considered to be inevitable. When it is discussed at all, especially in recent scholarly works, it merits at most a few paragraphs briefly mentioning that in the late nineteenth century the United States constructed a modern navy. It is portrayed as if U.S. leaders mostly favored greatly expanding the nation’s naval power and that little to no serious opposition existed among government leaders. Naval expansion, however, fundamentally altered U.S. foreign policy. It represented one of the most significant shifts in the Gilded Age, an era often thought of as a forgettable period in U.S. politics with no major political events taking place. If anything, naval expansion should be the single most discussed political decision to come out of this period and President Benjamin Harrison should be remembered for his role in this development. After all, there are few presidential actions from this period that continue to greatly affect U.S. policy today, and Harrison and his fellow naval expansionists deserve more than a footnote in history.

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Götze, Gerrit Verena [Verfasser]. "Folgezustände nach Operationen mit der "Midfacial-degloving"-Technik : eine retrospektive Analyse an kindlichen und erwachsenen Patienten der HNO-Klinik der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg und des Klinikums Benjamin-Franklin der Freien Universität Berlin der Jahre 1987 bis 1998 / von Gerrit Verena Götze." 2005. http://d-nb.info/978629957/34.

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"An Application of Contemporary Technical Writing Standards to Benjamin Franklins Works." East Tennessee State University, 2004. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-0716104-160527/.

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Klimt, Vojtěch. "Aspekt motivační autobiografie ve vyprávění uprchlých otroků (tzv. slave narratives)." Master's thesis, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-340449.

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This thesis aims to examine the representative of classic Enlightenment self-help text, Benjamin Franklin's Way to Wealth, and two representatives of the slave narrative genre, Frederick Douglass's and Olaudah Equiano's works, in terms of their possible affinity. The thesis compares and contrasts the individual texts and seeks to find analogies in structure and content which would indicate the influence of the self-help genre in American literature on the narratives and demonstrate the presence of the self-improvement element in the reading of slave narratives. The thesis consists of two key parts, the theoretical introduction onto the issues and practical part which analyses the texts themselves. KEY WORDS Frederick Douglass, Olaudah Equiano, Benjamin Franklin, slave narratives, self-help books, self-improvement, US history, uplift, autobiography, slavery, Enlightenment, 18th Century, 19th Century

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Franken, Benjamin [Verfasser]. "Untersuchungen zum Inaktivierungsmechanismus von mikrobiellen Lipasen in wasserfreien Transesterifizierungen / vorgelegt von Benjamin Franken." 2008. http://d-nb.info/992571227/34.

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