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Book SynopsisDuring the 1970s, the United States became the world's preeminent postindustrial society. The new conditions changed the way Americans lived and worked, and even their perceptions of reality. Americans struggled to find their place in a world where symbol became more important than fact, appearance more important than reality, where image supplanted essence. In this reassessment of a little studied decade, J. David Hoeveler, Jr., finds that the sense of detachment and dislocation that characterizes the postindustrial society serves as a paradigm for American thought and culture in the 1970s. The book examines major developments in literary theory, philosophy, architecture, and painting as expressions of a 1970s consciousness. Hoeveler also explores the rival political readings of these subjects and considers the postmodernist phenomenon as it became an ideological battleground in the decade. Clear and engaging, the work will be of great interest to historians, theorists, and everyone who wants to further explore the 1970s.Trade ReviewThe Postmodernist Turn not only charts historical change in a decade of the recent past. It accomplishes what some of Hoeveler's subjects doubted was ever really possible in historical study: it helps us to understand the intellectual landscape in which we find ourselves several decades later. -- Lewis Perry, Vanderbilt UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1: Postindustrialism Chapter 2: Wars of Words Chapter 3: Reading Left Chapter 4: Postmodernism I, Painting Chapter 5: Postmodernism II, architecture Chapter 6: Writing Feminist Chapter 7: Debating Black Chapter 8: Neoconservatism Chapter 9: On Liberalism Afterword Bibliographic Essay

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Book SynopsisDuring the 1970s, the United States became the world's preeminent postindustrial society. The new conditions changed the way Americans lived and worked, and even their perceptions of reality. Americans struggled to find their place in a world where symbol became more important than fact, appearance more important than reality, where image supplanted essence. In this reassessment of a little studied decade, J. David Hoeveler, Jr., finds that the sense of detachment and dislocation that characterizes the postindustrial society serves as a paradigm for American thought and culture in the 1970s. The book examines major developments in literary theory, philosophy, architecture, and painting as expressions of a 1970s consciousness. Hoeveler also explores the rival political readings of these subjects and considers the postmodernist phenomenon as it became an ideological battleground in the decade. Clear and engaging, the work will be of great interest to historians, theorists, and everyone who wants to further explore the 1970s.Trade ReviewThe Postmodernist Turn not only charts historical change in a decade of the recent past. It accomplishes what some of Hoeveler's subjects doubted was ever really possible in historical study: it helps us to understand the intellectual landscape in which we find ourselves several decades later. -- Lewis Perry, Vanderbilt UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1: Postindustrialism Chapter 2: Wars of Words Chapter 3: Reading Left Chapter 4: Postmodernism I, Painting Chapter 5: Postmodernism II, architecture Chapter 6: Writing Feminist Chapter 7: Debating Black Chapter 8: Neoconservatism Chapter 9: On Liberalism Afterword Bibliographic Essay

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Book SynopsisThe nine colleges of colonial America confronted the major political currents of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, while serving as the primary intellectual institutions for Puritanism and the transition to Enlightenment thought. The colleges also confronted the most partisan and divisive cultural movement of the eighteenth centurythe Great Awakening. Creating the American Mind is the first book to present a synthetic treatment of the colonial colleges, tracing their role in the intellectual development of early Americans through the Revolution. Distinguished historian J. David Hoeveler focuses on Harvard, William and Mary, Yale, the College of New Jersey (Princeton), King''s College (Columbia), the College of Philadelphia (University of Pennsylvania), Queen''s College (Rutgers), the College of Rhode Island (Brown), and Dartmouth. Hoeveler pays special attention to the collegiate experience of prominent Americans, including Jefferson, Hamilton, and Madison. Written in clear andTrade Review[Hoeveler's] book is highly readable and well researched and will be a useful addition to most academic libraries. * Library Journal *An informative, erudite commentary on the role and significance of nine major colleges in Colonial North America. Hoeveler's marvelous narrative and intellectual depth reflect brilliant handling of the material. Highly recommended. * CHOICE *This is the first synthetic account that we have of the colonial colleges in the eighteenth century. Hoeveler shows that from their inception, institutions of higher learning in America were creatures of politics, and he demonstrates that religious commitments did not preclude significant contributions in British North America. -- Bruce Kuklick, University of PennsylvaniaCreating the American Mind is an engaging 150-year journey across the institutional, intellectual, and political history of higher education in the American colonies. Adeptly situating each colonial college in its social context, J. David Hoeveler depicts unabashed academic politicization, intense religious strife, and conflicting regional interests. By combining biography with textual analysis, he demonstrates how patriotic fervor emerged from particularistic concerns, and how campus ferment spawned political and cultural revolution. Readers will enjoy Hoeveler's graceful writing, admire his breadth of knowledge, and appreciate his judicious conclusions. -- Harold Wechsler, University of RochesterThis book is a must study for those interested in not only the basic history of the founding of the early colleges in colonial America, but in how the ideas cultivated at these colleges gave birth to, and nurtured, that often fractious but always purposeful American 'mind.' * History of Education Quarterly *Solidly and clearly researched. Its treatment of the nine colonial colleges is authoritative for the individual institutions and Hoeveler weaves the separate stories together quite nicely into a larger narrative. -- Mark Noll, Wheaton CollegeProvides perhaps the most comprehensive study to date of the intellectual, religious politics behind the foundation of the nine British-American colonial colleges. Hoeveler offers a dense and rich study by deftly weaving straightforward institutional history, biographical vignettes, and close, insightful reading of foundational texts into a single narrative. * Itinerario *This impressive book aims to and succeeds in presenting a description of early American intellectual culture with a two-part approach that effectively combines discussion of significant educational trends with fascinating anecdotal tidbits of those days when nine colonial colleges were 'political to the core' and when 'intellect meant politics.' Highly recommended. * Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography *The best single-volume study of the colleges of colonial and revolutionary America. * Journal of American History *There is much to commend in Hoeveler's work. [It is] the first effort to synthesize the histories of all the colonial colleges. . . . A significant and worthwhile achievement. * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsPart I: Institutions Chapter 1: Oxford and Cambridge Chapter 2: Harvard I: School of the Puritans Chapter 3: Yale: Precarious Orthodoxy Chapter 4: William and Mary: Beleaguered Anglicanism Chapter 5: The College of New Jersey: The Dangerous Middle Chapter 6: King's College: Battle for New York Chapter 7: The College of Philadelphia: The Perils of Neutrality Chapter 8: Three from the Awakening: Rhode Island College, Queen's College, Dartmouth College Chapter 9: Harvard II: A Liberal Turn Part II: Politics, Revolution, and Intellectual Culture Chapter 10: The Colleges and the Revolution: New England Chapter 11: The Colleges and the Revolution: South and Middle Postscript

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Book SynopsisPresent a synthetic treatment of the colonial colleges, tracing their role in the intellectual development of early America through the American Revolution. This work focuses on Harvard, William and Mary, Yale, the College of New Jersey (Princeton), King's College (Columbia), the College of Philadelphia (Penn), among others.Trade Review[Hoeveler's] book is highly readable and well researched and will be a useful addition to most academic libraries. * Library Journal *An informative, erudite commentary on the role and significance of nine major colleges in Colonial North America. Hoeveler's marvelous narrative and intellectual depth reflect brilliant handling of the material. Highly recommended. * CHOICE *This is the first synthetic account that we have of the colonial colleges in the eighteenth century. Hoeveler shows that from their inception, institutions of higher learning in America were creatures of politics, and he demonstrates that religious commitments did not preclude significant contributions in British North America. -- Bruce Kuklick, University of PennsylvaniaCreating the American Mind is an engaging 150-year journey across the institutional, intellectual, and political history of higher education in the American colonies. Adeptly situating each colonial college in its social context, J. David Hoeveler depicts unabashed academic politicization, intense religious strife, and conflicting regional interests. By combining biography with textual analysis, he demonstrates how patriotic fervor emerged from particularistic concerns, and how campus ferment spawned political and cultural revolution. Readers will enjoy Hoeveler's graceful writing, admire his breadth of knowledge, and appreciate his judicious conclusions. -- Harold Wechsler, University of RochesterThis book is a must study for those interested in not only the basic history of the founding of the early colleges in colonial America, but in how the ideas cultivated at these colleges gave birth to, and nurtured, that often fractious but always purposeful American 'mind.' * History of Education Quarterly *Solidly and clearly researched. Its treatment of the nine colonial colleges is authoritative for the individual institutions and Hoeveler weaves the separate stories together quite nicely into a larger narrative. -- Mark Noll, Wheaton CollegeProvides perhaps the most comprehensive study to date of the intellectual, religious politics behind the foundation of the nine British-American colonial colleges. Hoeveler offers a dense and rich study by deftly weaving straightforward institutional history, biographical vignettes, and close, insightful reading of foundational texts into a single narrative. * Itinerario *This impressive book aims to and succeeds in presenting a description of early American intellectual culture with a two-part approach that effectively combines discussion of significant educational trends with fascinating anecdotal tidbits of those days when nine colonial colleges were 'political to the core' and when 'intellect meant politics.' Highly recommended. * Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography *The best single-volume study of the colleges of colonial and revolutionary America. * Journal of American History *There is much to commend in Hoeveler's work. [It is] the first effort to synthesize the histories of all the colonial colleges. . . . A significant and worthwhile achievement. * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsPart I: Institutions Chapter 1: Oxford and Cambridge Chapter 2: Harvard I: School of the Puritans Chapter 3: Yale: Precarious Orthodoxy Chapter 4: William and Mary: Beleaguered Anglicanism Chapter 5: The College of New Jersey: The Dangerous Middle Chapter 6: King's College: Battle for New York Chapter 7: The College of Philadelphia: The Perils of Neutrality Chapter 8: Three from the Awakening: Rhode Island College, Queen's College, Dartmouth College Chapter 9: Harvard II: A Liberal Turn Part II: Politics, Revolution, and Intellectual Culture Chapter 10: The Colleges and the Revolution: New England Chapter 11: The Colleges and the Revolution: South and Middle Postscript

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