The Making of the University of Michigan 1817-1992

by Nicholas H. Steneck and Howard Henry Peckham

Book Overview

Within three decades of its refounding in Ann Arbor in 1837, the University of Michigan became the largest and arguably most progressive university in the United States. By century's end, its influence in higher education stretched from coast to coast- from Cornell to Stanford- and touched professional, graduate, and undergraduate education. At the end of the twentieth century, the University of Michigan continues to rank among the nation's leading...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472095943
• ISBN13: 9780472095940
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.