Dartmouth and the World: Religion and Political Economy circa 1769

Dartmouth and the World: Religion and Political Economy circa 1769

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Publisher's Synopsis

For the 250th anniversary of the founding of Dartmouth College, the Political Economy Project at Dartmouth assembled a stellar cast of junior and senior scholars to explore the systemic conditions facing those seeking to found a new college two hundred fifty years ago.

What were the key political, economic and religious parameters operating in the Atlantic world at the time of the College's founding? What was the religious scene like at the moment when the Rev. Samson Occom of the Mohegan nation and the Rev. Eleazar Wheelock of Connecticut, two men from very different backgrounds whose improbable meeting occurred during the Great Awakening of the early 1740s, set about establishing a new school in the northern woods in the 1760s? How were the agendas of contemporaries differently mediated by the religious beliefs with which they acted, on the one hand, and the emerging thought world of political economy, very broadly understood, on the other? These are among the rich and variegated topics addressed in Dartmouth and the World, which breaks the mold of the traditional commemorative volume.

Book information

ISBN: 9781683933175
Publisher: University Press Copublishing Division
Imprint: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 378.7423
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 198
Weight: 494g
Height: 237mm
Width: 163mm
Spine width: 19mm