The way of improvement leads home : Philip Vickers Fithian and the rural Enlightenment in early America /

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The Way of Improvement Leads Home traces the short but fascinating life of Philip Vickers Fithian. Born to Presbyterian grain-growers in rural New Jersey, he was never quite satisfied with the agricultural life he seemed destined to inherit. Fithian longed for something more- to improve himself in a...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fea, John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia [Pa.] : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2008.
Colección:Early American studies.
Temas:
Fithian, Philip Vickers, > 1747-1776.
To 1799
American diaries > History and criticism.
Diarists > Virginia > Biography.
Enlightenment > United States.
Plantation life > Virginia > History > 18th century.
Presbyterians > New Jersey > Biography.
Tutors and tutoring > Virginia > Biography.
Journaux intimes américains > Histoire et critique.
Siècle des Lumières > États-Unis.
Vie dans les plantations > Virginie > Histoire > 18e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
Chaplains.
American diaries.
Diarists.
Enlightenment.
Intellectual life.
Manners and customs.
Plantation life.
Presbyterians.
Tutors and tutoring.
United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Chaplains.
United States > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Virginia > Social life and customs > To 1775.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1775-1783 (Révolution) > Aumôniers.
États-Unis > Vie intellectuelle > 18e siècle.
Virginie > Mœurs et coutumes > Jusqu'à 1775.
New Jersey.
United States.
Virginia.
Biographies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
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