Schools for Statesmen
Title | Schools for Statesmen PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew H. Browning |
Publisher | University Press of Kansas |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2022-06-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 070063309X |
“Whatever Principles are imbibed at College will run thro’ a Man’s whole future Conduct.” —William Livingston, signer of the Constitution Schools for Statesmen explores the fifty-five individual Framers of the Constitution in close detail and argues that their different educations help explain their divergent positions at the 1787 Constitutional Convention. Those educations ranged from outlawed Irish “hedge schools” to England’s venerable Inns of Court, from the grammar schools of New England to ambitious new academies springing up on the Carolina frontier. The more traditional schools that focused on Greek and Latin classics (Oxford, Harvard, Yale, William and Mary) were deeply conservative institutions resistant to change. But the Scottish colleges and the newer American schools (Princeton, Philadelphia, King's College) introduced students to a Scottish Enlightenment curriculum that fostered more radical, forward-thinking leaders. Half of the Framers had no college education and were often self-taught or had private tutors; most were quiet at the convention, although a few stubbornly opposed the new ideas they were hearing. Nearly all the delegates who took the lead at the convention had been educated at the newer, innovative colleges, but of the seven who rejected the new Constitution, three had gone to the older traditional schools, while three others had not gone to college at all. Schools for Statesmen is an unprecedented analysis of the sharply divergent educations of the Framers of the Constitution. It reveals the ways in which the Constitutional Convention, rather than being a counterrevolution by conservative elites, was dominated by forward-thinking innovators who had benefited from the educational revolution beginning in the mid-eighteenth century. Andrew Browning offers a new and persuasive explanation of key disagreements among the Framers and the process by which they were able to break through the impasse that threatened the convention; he provides a fresh understanding of the importance of education in what has been called the "Critical Period" of US history. Schools for Statesmen takes a deep dive into the diverse educational world of the eighteenth century and sheds new light on the origins of the US Constitution.
The School for Statesmen
Title | The School for Statesmen PDF eBook |
Author | School |
Publisher | |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 1837 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN |
Soldiers, Statesmen, and Cold War Crises
Title | Soldiers, Statesmen, and Cold War Crises PDF eBook |
Author | Richard K. Betts |
Publisher | |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780231074698 |
This story, published thirty years ago, remains extremely relevant to this day in that the author envisioned all problems related to the thankless task of nation-building in a multiethnic and multicultural Yugoslavia.
The School for Statesmen; or, The Public Man's Manual
Title | The School for Statesmen; or, The Public Man's Manual PDF eBook |
Author | Edmund Carrington |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 346 |
Release | 2024-09-26 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3385608422 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1837.
The school for statesmen, or, The public man's manual, by an old M.P.
Title | The school for statesmen, or, The public man's manual, by an old M.P. PDF eBook |
Author | Edmund Frederick J. Carrington |
Publisher | |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 1837 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The School for Statesmen, Or, the Public Man's Manual. Being a Complet Guide to the Constitution Since the Reform Bill. By an Old M.P. [i.e. Edmund F. J. Carrington.]
Title | The School for Statesmen, Or, the Public Man's Manual. Being a Complet Guide to the Constitution Since the Reform Bill. By an Old M.P. [i.e. Edmund F. J. Carrington.] PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 1837 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Every Citizen a Statesman
Title | Every Citizen a Statesman PDF eBook |
Author | David Allen |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2023-01-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674248988 |
As US power grew after WWI, officials and nonprofits joined to promote citizen participation in world affairs. David Allen traces the rise and fall of the Foreign Policy Association, a public-education initiative that retreated in the atomic age, scuttling dreams of democratic foreign policy and solidifying the technocratic national security model.