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Creating the American mind : intellect and politics in the Colonial colleges / J. David Hoeveler.
LIBRA LA227 .H64 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoeveler, J. David, 1943-
- Series:
- American intellectual culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Universities and colleges--United States--History--17th century.
- Universities and colleges.
- Universities and colleges--United States--History--18th century.
- Education, Higher--United States--History--17th century.
- Education, Higher.
- Education, Higher--United States--History--18th century.
- History.
- United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 379 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2002]
- Summary:
- The nine colleges of colonial America confronted the major political currents of the 17th and 18th centuries, while serving as the primary intellectual institutions for Puritanism and the transition to Enlightenment thought. The colleges also confronted the most partisan and divisive cultural movement of the eighteenth century--the Great Awakening. This is the first book to present a synthetic treatment of the colonial colleges, tracing their role in the intellectual development of early America through the American Revolution. Distinguished historian J. David Hoeveler focuses on Harvard, William and Mary, Yale, the College of New Jersey (Princeton), King's College (Columbia), the College of Philadelphia (Penn), Queen's College (Rutgers), the College of Rhode Island (Brown), and Dartmouth. Visit our website for sample chapters!
- Contents:
- Institutions. Oxford and Cambridge. Harvard : school of the Puritans. Yale : precarious orthodoxy. William and Mary : beleaguered Anglicanism. College of New Jersey : the dangerous middle. King's College : battle for New York. College of Philadelphia : perils of neutrality. Three from the awakening : Queen's College, Rhode Island College, Dartmouth college. Harvard II : a liberal turn
- Politics, Revolution, and intellectual culture. The colleges and the Revolution : New England. The colleges and the Revolution : South and Middle
- Postscript.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-362) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0847688305
- OCLC:
- 49648159
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