The consent of the governed : the Lockean legacy in early American culture / Gillian Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Gillian, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Locke, John, 1632-1704.

Political culture--United States--History--18th century.

Political culture.

Consensus (Social sciences).

History.

Political socialization.

United States.

Political socialization--United States--History--18th century.

Consensus (Social sciences)--United States--History--18th century.

Locke, John.

Locke, John, 1632-1704--Influence.

Political science.

Physical Description:

237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001.

Summary:

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 individual self-determination above all other values. It all begins with children.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0674002989

OCLC:

44633053