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100 1  Fea, John.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
       no2004008268 
245 14 The way of improvement leads home :|bPhilip Vickers 
       Fithian and the rural Enlightenment in early America /
       |cJohn Fea. 
264  1 Philadelphia :|bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,|c[2008] 
264  4 |c©2008 
300    269 pages :|billustrations, maps ;|c24 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
490 1  Early American studies 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-255) and 
       index. 
505 0  Introduction -- A Cohansey Home -- A Presbyterian 
       Conversion -- Ambition -- Rural Enlightenment -- A 
       Virginia Sojourn -- Revolution -- The Call of God -- Duty 
       -- Conclusion -- Appendix: A Note on the Fithian Diaries. 
520    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 revolutionary world that was making 
       upward mobility possible. Fithian is best known for the 
       diary that he wrote in 1773-74 while working as a tutor at
       Nomini Hall, the Virginia plantation of Robert Carter, and
       his role as a Revolutionary War chaplain. From the 
       villages of New Jersey, Fithian was able to participate 
       indirectly in the eighteenth-century republic of letters- 
       a transatlantic intellectual community. Participation 
       required a commitment to self-improvement that demanded a 
       belief in the Enlightenment values of human potential and 
       social progress. He constantly struggled to reconcile this
       quest for a cosmopolitan life with his love of home. It 
       was the people, the religious culture, and the very 
       landscape of his "native sod" that continued to hold 
       Fithian's affections. 
600 10 Fithian, Philip Vickers,|d1747-1776.|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/names/no2002083764 
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648  7 To 1775|2fast 
648  7 18th century|2fast 
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       sh2003009038|zVirginia|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
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       authorities/subjects/sh99001237 
650  0 Tutors and tutoring|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       subjects/sh85138993|zVirginia|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/names/n79022909-781|vBiography.|0https://
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       sh85106424|zNew Jersey|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
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       authorities/subjects/sh99001237 
650  0 Plantation life|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/
       sh85102824|zVirginia|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names
       /n79022909-781|xHistory|y18th century.|0https://id.loc.gov
       /authorities/subjects/sh2002006124 
650  0 Enlightenment|zUnited States.|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/subjects/sh2008119712 
650  0 American diaries|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/
       sh85004303|xHistory and criticism.|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/subjects/sh99001187 
650  7 Diarists.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/892681 
650  7 Tutors and tutoring.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/
       1159740 
650  7 Presbyterians.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1075567
650  7 Civil war|xReligious aspects|xPresbyterians.|2fast|0https:
       //id.worldcat.org/fast/2060449 
650  7 Manners and customs.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/
       1007815 
650  7 Plantation life.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/
       1065779 
650  7 History.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/958235 
650  7 Enlightenment.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/912527 
650  7 American diaries.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/
       806992 
650  7 Intellectual life.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/
       975769 
651  0 Virginia|xSocial life and customs|yTo 1775.|0https://
       id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143781 
651  0 United States|xHistory|yRevolution, 1775-1783|0https://
       id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140139|xChaplains.
       |0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99004937 
651  0 United States|xIntellectual life|y18th century.|0https://
       id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140364 
651  7 Virginia.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1204597 
651  7 New Jersey.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1208379 
651  7 United States.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1204155
655  7 Biographies.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919896 
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830  0 Early American studies.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       names/n95098514 
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