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Collegiate republic : cultivating an ideal society in early America /
This book looks at the first generation of college communities founded after the American Revolution. Focusing on the published and private writings of the families who founded and ran new colleges in antebellum America--including Bowdoin College, Washington College (later Washington and Lee), and F...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Jeffersonian America.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book looks at the first generation of college communities founded after the American Revolution. Focusing on the published and private writings of the families who founded and ran new colleges in antebellum America--including Bowdoin College, Washington College (later Washington and Lee), and Franklin College in Georgia--the author argues that these institutions not only trained white male elites for professions and leadership positions but also were part of a wider interregional network of social laboratories for the new nation. Colleges, and the educational enterprise flourishing around them, provided crucial cultural construction sites where early Americans explored organizing elements of gender, race, and class as they attempted to shape a model society and citizenry fit for a new republic. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 255 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813935683 0813935687 9781306788571 1306788579 |