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- catalog abstract ""The foundations for the United States' independence were laid long before a shot was fired at a redcoat in Lexington, Massachusetts in 1775. The Revolution 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 - an attitude that would shape the formation of the United States. Gillian Brown takes us back to the basics to teach us why Americans value the right to individual self-determination above all other values. It all begins with children." "Crucially, Locke linked consent with childhood, and it is his formulation of the child's natural right to consent that was instilled in eighteenth-century Americans as they learned to read through Lockean-style pedagogies and textbooks. Tracing the Lockean legacy through the New England Primer and popular readers, fables, and fairy tales, Brown demonstrates how Locke's emphasis on the liberty - and difficulty - of individual judgment became a received notion in the American colonies."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11789133.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""Crucially, Locke linked consent with childhood, and it is his formulation of the child's natural right to consent that was instilled in eighteenth-century Americans as they learned to read through Lockean-style pedagogies and textbooks. Tracing the Lockean legacy through the New England Primer and popular readers, fables, and fairy tales, Brown demonstrates how Locke's emphasis on the liberty - and difficulty - of individual judgment became a received notion in the American colonies."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""The foundations for the United States' independence were laid long before a shot was fired at a redcoat in Lexington, Massachusetts in 1775. The Revolution 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 - an attitude that would shape the formation of the United States. Gillian Brown takes us back to the basics to teach us why Americans value the right to individual self-determination above all other values. It all begins with children."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-228) and index.".
- catalog extent "237 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Consent of the governed.".
- catalog identifier "0674002989 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Consent of the governed.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,".
- catalog relation "Consent of the governed.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "320/.01/1 21".
- catalog subject "Consensus (Social sciences) United States History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "JK54 .B76 2001".
- catalog subject "Locke, John, 1632-1704 Contributions in political science.".
- catalog subject "Locke, John, 1632-1704 Influence.".
- catalog subject "Political culture United States History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Political socialization United States History 18th century.".
- catalog title "The consent of the governed : the Lockean legacy in early American culture / Gillian Brown.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".