The History Of Harvard University

Author : Samuel Eliot Morison
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674314511
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Founding of Harvard College written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Samuel Eliot Morison traces the roots of American universities back to Europe, providing "a lively contemporary perspective...a realistic picture of the founding of the first American university north of the Rio Grande" [Lewis Gannett, New York Herald Tribune].

Author : Samuel Eliot Morison
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674888913
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Centuries of Harvard, 1636-1936 written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1986-10-15 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Eliot Morison sat down to tell the whole story of Harvard informally and briefly, with the same genial humor and ability to see the human implications of past events that characterize his larger, multi-volume series on Harvard.

Author : Max Hall
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674380806
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harvard University Press written by Max Hall and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A university press is a curious institution, dedicated to the dissemination of learning yet apart from the academic structure; a publishing firm that is in business, but not to make money; an arm of the university that is frequently misunderstood and occasionally attacked by faculty and administration. Max Hall here chronicles the early stages and first sixty years of Harvard University Press in a rich and entertaining book that is at once Harvard history, publishing history, printing history, business history, and intellectual history. The tale begins in 1638 when the first printing press arrived in British North America. It became the property of Harvard College and remained so for nearly half a century. Hall sketches the various forerunners of the "real" Harvard University Press, founded in 1913, and then follows the ups and downs of its first six decades, during which the Press published steadily if not always serenely a total of 4,500 books. He describes the directors and others who left their stamp on the Press or guided its fortunes during these years. And he gives the stories behind such enduring works as Lovejoy's Great Chain of Being, Giedion's Space, Time, and Architecture, Langer's Philosophy in a New Key, and Kelly's Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings.

Author : Josiah Quincy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Harvard University written by Josiah Quincy and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frank Freidel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674375604
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harvard Guide to American History written by Frank Freidel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Editions for 1954 and 1967 by O. Handlin and others.

Author : Bainbridge Bunting
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674372917
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harvard written by Bainbridge Bunting and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of Harvard's architecture examines the Federal architecture of Charles Bulfinch, H.H. Richardson's Romanesque buildings, the Imperial manner reflected in Widener Library, and the work of other architects such as Charles McKim, Gropius and Le Corbusier.

Author : W. Jeffrey Bolster
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674070461
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mortal Sea written by W. Jeffrey Bolster and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-08 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Viking ascendancy in the Middle Ages, the Atlantic has shaped the lives of people who depend upon it for survival. And just as surely, people have shaped the Atlantic. In his innovative account of this interdependency, W. Jeffrey Bolster, a historian and professional seafarer, takes us through a millennium-long environmental history of our impact on one of the largest ecosystems in the world. While overfishing is often thought of as a contemporary problem, Bolster reveals that humans were transforming the sea long before factory trawlers turned fishing from a handliner's art into an industrial enterprise. The western Atlantic's legendary fishing banks, stretching from Cape Cod to Newfoundland, have attracted fishermen for more than five hundred years. Bolster follows the effects of this siren's song from its medieval European origins to the advent of industrialized fishing in American waters at the beginning of the twentieth century. Blending marine biology, ecological insight, and a remarkable cast of characters, from notable explorers to scientists to an army of unknown fishermen, Bolster tells a story that is both ecological and human: the prelude to an environmental disaster. Over generations, harvesters created a quiet catastrophe as the sea could no longer renew itself. Bolster writes in the hope that the intimate relationship humans have long had with the ocean, and the species that live within it, can be restored for future generations.

Author : Crimson Key Society
Publisher : Let's Go
ISBN 13 : 9781612370163
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside Harvard written by Crimson Key Society and published by Let's Go. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get inside Harvard with this brand-new edition of the Crimson Key Society's guide, a behind-the-scenes look at one of America's most prestigious universities. Tracing Harvard's riveting 350-year-long history--from storied past to thriving present--Inside Harvard offers unique insight into student life, as well as full-color maps and photographs, fun facts and figures, walking tours, and alumni and architectural spotlights. The Crimson Key Society leaves no tradition untold and no hidden tunnel unexplored--so whether you're an alumnus, a prospective student, or a simply curious visitor, check out Inside Harvard for a glimpse into the heart of this prestigious U.S. institution.

Author : Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674002760
Total Pages : 968 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Harvard Guide to African-American History written by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiles information and interpretations on the past 500 years of African American history, containing essays on historical research aids, bibliographies, resources for womens' issues, and an accompanying CD-ROM providing bibliographical entries.

Author : Josiah Quincy
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3375103883
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Harvard University written by Josiah Quincy and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-07-27 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.