Collegiate republic : cultivating an ideal society in early America / Margaret Sumner.

By:

Sumner, Margaret, 1972- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Jeffersonian AmericaPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2014Description: 1 online resource (ix, 255 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780813935683
0813935687
9781306788571
1306788579

Other title: 潃汬来慩整删灥扵楬 Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Collegiate republic.DDC classification:

378.73 23

LOC classification:

LA227 .S86 2014

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Contents:

Cultivating the college world : "the generous purpose" -- Organizing the college world : "all various nature" -- Building the college world : "an elegant sufficiency" -- Working in the college world : "ease and alternate labor" -- Leaving the college world : "gentle spirits fly."

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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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English.

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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