{"product_id":"yale-a-history-0300078439","title":"Yale: A History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0300078439\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Brooks Mather Kelley\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. \"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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":51499411964192,"sku":"NEW0300078439","price":44.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Used - Good","offer_id":51499411996960,"sku":"USED0300078439","price":15.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/content_2db4bb0d-3e67-4942-b485-59bd76f4bfaf.jpg?v=1776703997","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/yale-a-history-0300078439","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}