Franklin and His Friends: Portraying the Man of Science in Eighteenth-Century America

By Brandon Brame Fortune and Deborah J. Warner

Portraits, like the printed texts and manuscript documents more conventionally used by historians, can serve as historical evidence. They are central to our understanding of the social construction of personal identity -- of how people presented themselves in a social context.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812217012
• ISBN13: 9780812217018
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"