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Prodigals and Pilgrims : The American Revolution against Patriarchal Authority 1750-1800
Prodigals and Pilgrims The American Revolution against Patriarchal Authority 17501800 Author:Jay Fliegelman The author traces a constellation of intimately related ideas - about the nature of parental authority and filial rights, of moral obligation of Scripture, of the growth of the mind and the nature of historical progress - from their most important English and continental expressions in a variety of literary and theological texts, to their transm... more »ission, reception and application in Revolutionary America and in the early national period of American culture.« less