The Consent of the Governed: The Lockean Legacy in Early American Culture

by Gillian D. Brown

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674002989
• ISBN13: 9780674002982
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.6"