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
Author: Brooks Mather Kelley
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 01/11/1999
Pages: 600
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.89lbs
Size: 9.23h x 6.12w x 1.24d
ISBN13: 9780300078435
ISBN10: 0300078439
BISAC Categories:
- Education | History
- Education | Schools | Levels | Higher
About the Author
Brooks Mather Kelley, a research affiliate in history at Yale University, has also held numerous other positions there, including university archivist and curator of historical manuscripts.