| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

J. David Hoeveler. Creating the American Mind: Intellect and Politics in the Colonial Colleges. (American Intellectual Culture.) Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. 2002. Pp. xvi, 381. $39.95.

The nine colleges established by colonial Americans were arguably their most successful efforts at institution building. Harvard, William and Mary, Yale, the College of New Jersey (Princeton), King's College (Columbia), the College of Philadelphia (the University of Pennsylvania), the College of Rhode Island (Brown), Queen's College (Rutgers), and Dartmouth were also, to varying degrees, intercolonial institutions. They are, therefore, ideally suited for studying culture transfer in early America and for understanding the ways in which a distinctly American identity might have emerged before 1776. J. David Hoeveler's analysis is the first attempt at that important task. His work is, in fact, the first effort to synthesize the histories of all the colonial colleges—and the author hopes to do even more. Hoeveler seeks to put each college into its specific local context and to analyze its "public nature" by discussing each institution's relationship to colonial politics and to the crown, to its sponsoring religious denomination, and to the religious issues and conflicts that defined and differentiated each college. Still more ambitiously, he wants to argue that from all of that interaction between political and intellectual cultures there emerged by the end of the revolution a distinctly "American mind."

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