Creating the American mind
Subtitle: intellect and politics in the Colonial colleges
By: J. David Hoeveler.
Series: American intellectual culture
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
ISBN-13: 9780847688302
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
Description: "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 dealt with 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 comprehensive 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-362) and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Institutions. Oxford and Cambridge ; Harvard I : school of the Puritans ; Yale : precarious orthodoxy ; William and Mary : beleaguered Anglicanism ; The College of New Jersey : the dangerous middle ; King's college : battle for New York ; The College of Philadelphia : the perils of neutrality ; Three from the awakening : Rhode Island college, Queen's college, Dartmouth college ; Harvard II : a liberal turn; title: pt. 2. Politics, Revolution, and intellectual culture. The colleges and the Revolution : New England ; The colleges and the Revolution : South and Middle.