Thesis--Zurich. / Vita. "Literaturverzeichnis": p. [8]-12.

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This thesis explores the public image of Thomas Jefferson as recorded in his major life portraits. It consults the traditions that surrounded eighteenth-century portraiture and the history of the portrait as a means of expressing authority, power, and personal interest. This study contends that Jefferson worked within these traditions and fashioned and refashioned an image that promoted his vision of American republicanism. Therefore, it places each portrait within the context of the sociopolitical environment in which it was created and considers Jefferson’s political motives and actions against these recorded images. This departs from previous works that stopped with an identification of the life portraits, a discussion of the artist, and an evaluation of the merits of the portrait as a work of art. Rather it builds upon these earlier studies to approach Jefferson’s use of the portrait to manage his image and advance his political and ideological aims for the newly formed nation. The goal of this thesis is to offer an enlarged and diverse assessment of this leading founder of the American republic through the public image he created in his life portraits.

Thesis--Zurich. / Vita. "Literaturverzeichnis": p. [8]-12.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University / The problem of this dissertation is that of tracing the philosophical presuppositions of Jefferson's social theories. This is done in two ways: (1) by determining his own implied presuppositions and (2) by tracing those presuppositions in the history of ideas. Although other aspects of his social thought are treated briefly, primary emphasis is placed upon his political philosophy. Jefferson cannot be called a philosopher in the classic sense of that term. The attempts to place Jefferson in a traditional philosophical school during the first twenty-five years of his life have been unrewarding if not misleading. Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence when he was thirty-three years of age and there is little indication that he had developed a systematic political philosophy. He interested himself in the early foundations of English common law and attempted unsuccessfully to establish the doctrine that true English law had its origin in a proto-democracy which had preceded the feudal era. [TRUNCATED]

This thesis is a historiographical study of Thomas Jefferson.

In his autobiography, Thomas Jefferson argued that his goal in the American Revolution had been to eliminate “feudal and unnatural distinctions” in colonial American society as part of the struggle for independence. This thesis focuses on Jefferson’s years as a revolutionary legislator in the new state of Virginia, and argues that while he was correct in labelling Virginia a feudal society, his reforms were insufficient to the scale of social reformation that he identified. Material addressed includes Jefferson’s synthesis of British feudal and mercantile history that he constructed during the early years of the revolution, his proposed constitution for the state of Virginia, and his legislative reforms to the judiciary, landownership, the established church, education, citizenship, and slavery.

Thesis (M.A.)--Eastern Illinois University, 2008. / Subtitle on abstract: Appetite in the construction of identity in the writing of William Byrd II and Thomas Jefferson. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 71-75).

Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2008. / Title from file title page. Melissa M. Merritt, committee chair; Andrew J. Cohen, Sandra Dwyer, committee members. Electronic text (85 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed October 9, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 82-85).