Creating the American mind; intellect and politics in the colonial colleges. (reprint, 2002).9780742548398 Creating the American mind; intellect and politics in the colonial colleges The colonial colleges are nine institutions of higher education chartered in the American Colonies before the American Revolution (1775–1783). These nine have long been considered together, notably in the survey of their origins in the 1907 . (reprint reprint An individually bound copy of an article in a journal or science communication , 2002) Hoeveler, J. David. Rowman & Littlefield 2007 379 pages $24.95 Paperback American intellectual culture LA227 This is a paperbound pa·per·bound adj. Bound in paper; paperback. reprint of a 2002 book. Examining all nine of the colleges that existed at the time of the American Revolution American Revolution, 1775–83, struggle by which the Thirteen Colonies on the Atlantic seaboard of North America won independence from Great Britain and became the United States. It is also called the American War of Independence. , Hoeveler (history, U. of Wisconsin at Milwaukee) explores the political role that students, professors, and officials in the life of the colonies. The approach is a largely institutional one with examinations of the actions of important individuals existing side-by-side with descriptions of their intellectual output related to controversies of religion and the revolt against the British. While not reifying the "American Mind" as a unitary unitary pertaining to a single object or individual. thing, Hoeveler does suggest that the foundations of American intellectual culture can be seen to have arisen from these controversies. ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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