Yale: A History Revised Edition Contributor(s): Kelley, Brooks Mather (Author) |
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ISBN: 0300078439 ISBN-13: 9780300078435 Publisher: Yale University Press OUR PRICE: $38.56 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1999 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Education | History - Education | Higher |
Dewey: 378 |
Series: Yale Scene: University |
Physical Information: 1.24" H x 6.12" W x 9.23" (1.89 lbs) 600 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This lively history of Yale traces the development of the college from its founding in 1701 by a small group of Puritan clergymen intent on preserving the purity of the faith in Connecticut, to its survival in the eighteenth century as a center for intellectual life, to its expansion in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as a major international university.
For tasting one of the well-springs of a peculiarly American version of higher learning, Yale: A History is clearly to be recommended to readers anywhere. It will be read with profit as well as enjoyment.--Times Higher Education Supplement
Kelley sustains his] theme well and reconstructs the institutional development of Yale with considerable skill and empathy. . . . A very informative book.--Journal of American History
Useful both for those primarily interested in Yale as an institution and for students of the history of higher education generally.--The Historian
A readable, accurate synthesis of Yale's internal history, fully comparable to the best single-volume treatments of other major universities.--Times Literary Supplement
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