To see the other types of publications on this topic, follow the link: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.

Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin'

Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles

Select a source type:

Consult the top 33 dissertations / theses for your research on the topic 'The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.'

Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.

You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.

Browse dissertations / theses on a wide variety of disciplines and organise your bibliography correctly.

1

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.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
2

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.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
3

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.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
4

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/.

Full text
Abstract:
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.
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.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
5

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.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
6

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.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
7

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.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
8

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.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
9

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.

Full text
Abstract:
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.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
10

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.

Full text
Abstract:
History
M.A.
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 Autobiography
Temple University--Theses
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
11

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.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
12

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.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
13

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.

Full text
Abstract:
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.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
14

Loterio, Guaraciara R. 1983. "Uma questão autobiográfica : o sujeito nos escritos confessionais de Walter Benjamin." [s.n.], 2013. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/270057.

Full text
Abstract:
Orientador: Márcio Orlando Seligmann Silva
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-22T18:20:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Loterio_GuaraciaraR._M.pdf: 1174598 bytes, checksum: 565d71131e7ef358643c47e9f2eba8d4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013
Resumo: A intenção inicial desta pesquisa era analisar a maneira como se constitui o sujeito ao longo dos escritos confessionais de Walter Benjamin, levando em consideração os movimentos e possíveis transformações que lhe seriam essenciais. Para tanto, pretendi levar em conta a forma peculiar pela qual Benjamim se constrói como sujeito nessas narrativas, isto é, rompendo com a ideia de linearidade e transparência de si. Deste modo, o autor parece possibilitar o desenvolvimento de uma leitura alçada na imagem e na representação desse sujeito dentro da autoescritura. Tal leitura visa lidar com as constantes transformações - que, por vezes, chegam até mesmo a expressar contradições - sofridas pelo sujeito benjaminiano ao longo dos textos. No princípio, parti da hipótese de que o termo "confessional" e o termo "autobiográfico" seriam sinônimos. Deste modo, a pergunta pela "escrita confessional" benjaminiana se confundiria com a questão da autobiografia na obra do autor. Posteriormente, e por uma questão paradigmática no que tange ao andamento do trabalho, percebi que a escrita do sujeito benjaminiano mescla momentos confessionais e testemunhais, inaugurando, segundo creio, um novo viés dentro da escritura autobiográfica. Proponho-me a desenvolver este trabalho a partir da leitura das seguintes obras de Walter Benjamin: Infância em Berlim por Volta de 1900 (Berliner Kindheit um Neunzehnhundert); Crônica Berlinense (Berliner Chronik) e Diário de Moscou (Moskauer Tagebuch). Tal recorte foi feito tomando por base o realizado por Gerhard Richter em seu artigo "Acts of Self-Portraiture: Benjamin's Confessional and Literary Writings", publicado pela primeira vez em 2004 no The Cambridge Companion to Walter Benjamin1
Abstract: The original intention of this research was to examine how the subject constitutes itself through the confessional writings of Walter Benjamin, taking into consideration the movements and possible changes that would be essential to it. Therefore, I wanted to take into account the peculiar way in which Benjamin constitutes it as a subject into these narratives, i.e., rupturing the idea of linearity and transparency of it. Thus, the author appears to enable the development of competence in a read image and a representation of the subject within his 'self writing'. This reading aims to deal with the constant transformations - which sometimes even expresses contradictions - suffered by Benjamin's subject over the texts. At the beginning, I staged the hypothesis that the term "confessional" and the term "autobiographical" were synonymous. Thus, the question of Benjamin's "confessional writing" became merged with the matter of autobiography in his works. Later, as a paradigm regarding the working process, I realized that Benjamin's 'self writing' and its subject merge confessional and testimonial moments, presenting what I think it is a new bias into the autobiographical writing. I propose to develop this work from the following works of Walter Benjamin: Berlin Childhood around 1900 (Berliner Kindheit one Neunzehnhundert); Berliner's Chronicle (Berliner Chronik) and Moscow's Diary (Moskauer Tagebuch). This selection was done by taking the base held by Gerhard Richter in his article "Acts of Self-Portraiture: Benjamin's Confessional and Literary Writings", first published in 2004 in The Cambridge Companion to Walter Benjamin.2
Mestrado
Teoria e Critica Literaria
Mestra em Teoria e História Literária
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
15

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.

Full text
Abstract:
Thesis (M.A.)--East Tennessee State University, 2004.
Title from electronic submission form. ETSU ETD database URN: etd-0716104-160527 Includes bibliographical references. Also available via Internet at the UMI web site.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
16

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.

Full text
Abstract:
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.
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).
M.A.
Masters
History
Arts and Humanities
History; Public History
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
17

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.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
18

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.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
19

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.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
20

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.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
21

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

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
22

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.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
23

Godard, Caroline. "'Une sorte de vaste sensation collective': Story and Experience in the work of Marcel Proust, Walter Benjamin, and Annie Ernaux." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1563891435485933.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
24

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.

Full text
Abstract:
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)
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)
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)
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
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.
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.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
25

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.

Full text
Abstract:
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.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
26

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.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
27

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.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
28

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

Full text
Abstract:
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
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
29

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.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
30

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.

Full text
Abstract:
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.
McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts;
Communication and Rhetorical Studies
PhD
Dissertation;
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
31

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.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
32

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

Full text
Abstract:
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.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
33

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.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
We offer discounts on all premium plans for authors whose works are included in thematic literature selections. Contact us to get a unique promo code!

To the bibliography