Creating the American Mind: Intellect and Politics in the Colonial Colleges (American Intellectual Culture) - Softcover

Hoeveler, J. David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0742548392 ISBN 13: 9780742548398

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007

Synopsis

The nine colleges of colonial America confronted the major political currents of the seventeenth and eighteenth 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.

Creating the American Mind is the first book to present a synthetic treatment of the colonial colleges, tracing their role in the intellectual development of early Americans through the 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 (University of Pennsylvania), Queen's College (Rutgers), the College of Rhode Island (Brown), and Dartmouth. Hoeveler pays special attention to the collegiate experience of prominent Americans, including Jefferson, Hamilton, and Madison.

Written in clear and engaging prose, Creating the American Mind will be of great value to historians and educators interested in rediscovering the institutions that first fostered American intellectual thought.

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About the Author

J. David Hoeveler is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. His books include James McCosh and the Scottish Intellectual Tradition: From Glasgow to Princeton and The Postmodernist Turn: American Thought and Culture in the 1970s.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0742548392
• ISBN 13: 9780742548398
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400