The Consent of the Governed
The Lockean Legacy in Early American Culture
What made the United States what it is began long before a shot was fired at a redcoat in Lexington, Massachusetts in 1775. It began quietly in homes and schoolrooms across the colonies in the reading lessons women gave to children. Just as the Protestant revolt originated in a practice of individual reading of the Bible, so the theories of reading developed by John Locke were the means by which a revolutionary attitude toward authority was disseminated throughout the British colonies in North America that would come to form in the United States. Gillian Brown takes us back to the basics to understand why Americans value the right to individu…
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- ISBN: 978-0-674-00298-2
- EAN: 9780674002982
- Produktnummer: 1431507
- Verlag: Harvard University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 245 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.6 cm x D0.0 cm 550 g
- Abbildungen: none
- Gewicht: 550
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
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