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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fea, John
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia [Pa.] : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
Series:Early American studies.
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Subjects:
Fithian, Philip Vickers, > 1747-1776.
American diaries > History and criticism.
Enlightenment > United States.
Plantation life > Virginia > History > 18th century.
Presbyterians > New Jersey > Biography.
Tutors and tutoring > Virginia > Biography.
Diarists > Virginia > Biography.
United States > Intellectual life > 18th century.
United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Chaplains.
Virginia > Social life and customs > To 1775.
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