Creating the American mind : intellect and politics in the Colonial colleges / J. David Hoeveler.

Author/Creator:

Hoeveler, J. David, 1943-

Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2002.

Series:

American intellectual culture

Format/Description:

Book
xvi, 379 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subjects:

Universities and colleges -- United States -- History -- 17th century.
Universities and colleges -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Education, Higher -- United States -- History -- 17th century.
Education, Higher -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

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 (p. 351-362) and index.

ISBN:

0847688305 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

49648159

Online:

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