Three Centuries of Harvard, 1636–1936

Häftad, Engelska, 1986

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Beskrivning

This one-volume history of Harvard is not so much a summary of Samuel Eliot Morison’s monumental work [The Tercentennial History of Harvard College and University, 1636–1936] as it is an entirely fresh handling of his vast material.With a mind saturated in the lore and tradition at his command, Professor Morison has sat down to tell the whole story of Harvard informally and briefly. Documentation and all the learned apparatus of scholarly research are therefore omitted; but the same genial humor, the same ability to see the human implications of past events, that characterize his larger, multi-volume series on Harvard are preserved in this. The result is a marvelously entertaining volume, the history of Harvard that everyone has been waiting for, a model of vitalized historical writing.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1986-10-15
Mått:140 x 210 x undefined mm
Vikt:535 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:520
Förlag:Harvard University Press
ISBN:9780674888913

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Samuel Eliot Morison was Professor of History at Harvard University. His books won two Pulitzer Prizes.

Recensioner i media

A salty narrative of the vicissitudes of an institution whose record mirrors America… A social history in the best sense, as earthy and humorous as a Dickens novel, but in the spirit better to be compared, perhaps, with biography of the Strachey school. In fact, Professor Morison has brought Harvard so much alive in his pages that biography seems a better term for his book than history.

Innehållsförteckning

The Puritan Age 1636-1707 1. 'First Flowers of Their Wilderness' 2. School of The Prophets 3. Decline and Revival Aaron's Rod 1708-1806 4. The Great Leverett 5. Wadsworth to Langdon 6. 'Good Old Colony Times' 7. 'Through Change and Through Storm' 8. Federalists and Unitarians The Augustan Age 1806-1845 9. President Kirkland 10. Expansion and Reform 11. President Quincy The Age of Transition 12. Minor Prophets 13. War and Peace the Olympian Age 14. President Eliot 15. The Harvest Season 16. College Life From War to War 17. The Lowell Administration 'The Age That Is Waiting Before' 18. 'To Advance Learning' Appendix. Statistics of Growth, 1869-1936 Index