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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300016360
• ISBN13: 9780300016369
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.