Out of Smalle Beginnings... An Economic History of Harvard College in the Puritan Period (1636-1712) |
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| Author:
| Foster, Margery Somers |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-28395-4 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2013 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $65.00 |
Book Description:
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Harvard College in the seventeenth century was one of America's largest and most continuous economic enterprises. Its financing is a record of resourceful extemporization. This is the first recorded notice of the institution which was to become Harvard University, and significantly, Margery Somers Foster comments, "it is a notice concerned with finance."
Harvard College in the seventeenth century was one of America's largest and most continuous economic enterprises. Its financing is a record of resourceful extemporization. This is the first recorded notice of the institution which was to become Harvard University, and significantly, Margery Somers Foster comments, "it is a notice concerned with finance."