Further Reading

Published Writings by and about Philip Vickers Fithian

Farish, Hunter Dickinson, ed. Journal and Letters of Philip Vickers Fithian: A Plantation Tutor of the Old Dominion. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 1957.

Williams, John Rogers, ed. Philip Vickers Fithian: Journal and Letters, 1767-1774. Princeton: The University Library, 1900.

Albion, Robert Greenhalgh, and Leonidas Dodson, eds. Philip Vickers Fithian Journal, 1775-1776, Written on the Virginia-Pennsylvania Frontier and in the Army Around New York. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1934.

McCluskey, Vincent Stanley. “The Life and Times of Philip Vickers Fithian: Revolutionary War Hero.” Ph.D dissertation, New York University, 1991.

The Enlightenment in America

Jaffee, David. "The Village Enlightenment in New England, 1760-1820."William and Mary Quarterly 47 (July 1990), 327-46.

Landsman, Ned. From Colonials to Provincials: American Thought and Culture, 1680-1760. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000.

May, Henry. The Enlightenment in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.

Schlereth, Thomas J. The Cosmopolitan Ideal in Enlightenment Thought: Its Form and Function in the Ideas of Franklin, Hume, and Voltaire, 1694-1790. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1977.

Christianity, Virtue, and the Era of the American Revolution

Howe, Daniel Walker. Making the American Self: Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Kloppenberg, James T. "The Virtues of Liberalism: Christianity, Republicanism, and Ethics in Early American Political Discourse."Journal of American History 74 (June 1987), 9-33.

Murrin, John. "Religion and Politics in America from the First Settlements to the Civil War" in Religion and American Politics: From the Colonial Period to the 1980s, ed. Mark A. Noll, 19-43. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Noll, Mark A. America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Wood, Gordon, The Radicalism of the American Revolution. New York: Knopf, 1992.

Contemporary Theory on Cosmopolitanism

Ackerman, Bruce. "Rooted Cosmopolitanism." Ethics 104 (April 1994), 516-35.

Cohen, Mitchell. "Rooted Cosmopolitanism." Dissent 39 (Fall 1992), 478-83.

Cheah, Pheng and Bruce Robbins, eds. Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling beyond the Nation. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998.

Nussbaum, Martha Craven, et. al. For Love of Country: Debating the Limits of Patriotism. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996.