Collegiate Republic: Cultivating an Ideal Society in Early America

by Margaret Sumner

Collegiate Republic offers a compellingly different view of the first generation of college communities founded after the American Revolution. Such histories have usually taken the form of the institutional tale, charting the growth of a single institution and the male minds within it. Focusing on the published and private writings of the families who founded and ran new colleges in antebellum America--including Bowdoin College, Washington...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813935679
• ISBN13: 9780813935676
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"