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Dr. Jonathan Mayhew (1720–1766) was, according to John Adams, a
“transcendental genius . . . who threw all the weight of his
great fame into the scale of the country in 1761, and maintained it
there with zeal and ardor till his death.” He was also, J.
Patrick Mullins contends, the most politically influential
clergyman in eighteenth-century America and the intellectual
progenitor of the American Revolution in New England. Father of
Liberty is the first book to fully explore Mayhew’s political
thought and activism, understood within the context of his personal
experiences and intellectual influences, and of the cultural
developments and political events of his time. Analyzing and
assessing his contributions to eighteenth-century New England
political culture, the book demonstrates Mayhew’s critical
contribution to the intellectual origins of the American
Revolution.
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.
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