{"product_id":"yale-a-history-9780300078435","title":"Yale: A History","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Brooks Mather Kelley\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"For tasting one of the well-springs of a peculiarly American version of higher learning, \u003ci\u003eYale: A History\u003c\/i\u003e is clearly to be recommended to readers anywhere. It will be read with profit as well as enjoyment.\"--\u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Kelley sustains [his] theme well and reconstructs the institutional development of Yale with considerable skill and empathy. . . . A very informative book.\"--\u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Useful both for those primarily interested in Yale as an institution and for students of the history of higher education generally.\"\u003ci\u003e--The Historian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A readable, accurate synthesis of Yale's internal history, fully comparable to the best single-volume treatments of other major universities.\"--\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47591334838423,"sku":"9780300078435","price":4691.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780300078435.webp?v=1774972521","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/yale-a-history-9780300078435","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}