Benjamin Franklin's Vision of American Community

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Benjamin Franklin's Vision of American Community is written by Lester C. Olson and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1570035253 (ISBN 10) and 9781570035258 (ISBN 13).

"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.