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The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America

By John Fea

Book information

Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9780812206395
DOI
10.9783/9780812206395
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2094766 bytes)
Pages
280\277
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-26 20:38:09

Description

In this first full biography of Philip Vickers Fithian, John Fea tells the story of how one young man sought to pursue the life of an eighteenth-century Presbyterian gentleman while continuing to yearn for the everyday passions that defined what it meant for him to be human. In this first full biography of Philip Vickers Fithian, John Fea tells the story of how one young man sought to pursue the life of an eighteenth-century Presbyterian gentleman while continuing to yearn for the everyday passions that defined what it meant for him to be human.

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