Collegiate Republic : Cultivating an Ideal Society in Early America /

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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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Main Author: Sumner, Margaret, 1972- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Universities and colleges.
Education, Higher > Social aspects.
Education, Higher > Philosophy.
Education, Higher.
HISTORY > United States > Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
EDUCATION > Higher.
Enseignement superieur > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Universites > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Universites > États-Unis > Histoire > 18e siecle.
History of Education.
Social Sciences.
Education.
Education, Higher > United States > Philosophy.
Education, Higher > Social aspects > United States.
Education, Higher > United States > History > 19th century.
Education, Higher > United States > History > 18th century.
Universities and colleges > United States > History > 19th century.
Universities and colleges > United States > History > 18th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (272 pages).
ISBN:9780813935683

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