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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...

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Autor principal: Sumner, Margaret, 1972- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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