Yale: A History

by Brooks Mather Kelley

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300078439
• ISBN13: 9780300078435
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 600 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"