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Author:

Fea, John.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Pennsylvania Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

269 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Fithian, Philip Vickers,--1747-1776.
Diarists--Virginia--Biography.
Tutors and tutoring--Virginia--Biography.
Presbyterians--New Jersey--Biography.
Virginia--Social life and customs--To 1775.
Plantation life--Virginia--History--18th century.
United States--Chaplains.--Revolution, 1775-1783--Chaplains.
Enlightenment--United States.
American diaries--History and criticism.
United States--Intellectual life--18th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-255) and index.

Series:

Early American studies

ISBN:

9780812241099 (alk. paper)
0812241096 (alk. paper)
0812241096
9780812241099

LCCN:

2008006044

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)