From Crisis to Crisis : American College Government, 1636-1819 / Jurgen Herbst.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herbst, Jurgen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Degrees, Academic--United States--History.

Degrees, Academic.

Universities and colleges--United States--History.

Universities and colleges.

HISTORY / United States / General.

Local Subjects:

Degrees, Academic--United States--History.

HISTORY / United States / General.

Universities and colleges--United States--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I. Schools of the Reformation in the New World

1. A PROVINCIAL SCHOOL IN THE WILDERNESS

2. HARVARD COLLEGE: THE NEW WORLD'S OLDEST CORPORATION

3. THE COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY

4. CONNECTICUT'S COLLEGIATE SCHOOL

5. THE TRIUMPH OF EXTERNAL GOVERNMENT

II. Cultural Pluralism and the Great Awakening

6. YALE COLLEGE AND THE AWAKENING

7. COLLEGE FOUNDING IN THE MIDDLE COLONIES

8. A COLLEGE FOR NEW YORK

9. AUTOCRACY IN CONNECTICUT AND PLURALISM IN RHODE ISLAND

10. THE AMERICAN PROVINCIAL COLLEGE

III. From the Revolution to the Dartmouth College Case

11. WAR AND REVOLUTION

12. THE BIRTH OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY

13. THE PEOPLE VERSUS THE COLLEGES

14. THE PRIVATE COLLEGES

15. STATE COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

16. NOVUS ORDO COLLEGIORUM

17. DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: THE SUPREME COURT SPEAKS

APPENDIX A. The Fifty-Two Degree-Granting Institutions of Higher Learning Chartered between 1636 and 1820. (An asterisk indicates that by 1820 there was no report of the institution's existence as a college; "n. a." indicates that information is not available.)

APPENDIX B. Number of Earned First Degrees Awarded by American Colleges and Universities, 1642-1820

NOTES

INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-18401-7

OCLC:

1013938343