The Way of Improvement Leads Home : Philip Vickers Fithian and the rural Enlightenment in early America by Fea, John - 2008

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. 269 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Series: Early American studies. Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-255) and index. A cultural and intellectual biography of Philip Vickers Fithian, shedding light on the colonial history of New Jersey and Virginia, the development of the early Presbyterian Church, eighteenth-century courtship rituals and the impact of the enlightenment on ordinary people at the time of the American Revolution. Winner of the 2009 New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance Author Award for scholarly nonfiction. Fine condition in like dustjacket. Grey Cloth.