The Origins of American Politics
by Bernard Bailyn
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"An astonishing range of reading in contemporary tracts and modern authorities is manifest, and many aspects of British and colonial affairs are illuminated. As a political analysis this very important contribution will be hard to refute . . ."--Frederick B. Tolles, Political Science Quarterly "He produces historical analysis which is as revealing to the political scientist or sociologist as to the historian, of the significance of social and cultural forces on political changes in show more eighteenth-century America."--John D. Lees, Cambridge University Press " . . . these well-argued essays represent the first sustained and systematic attempt to provide a comprehensive and integrated analysis of all elements of American political life during the late colonial period . . . the author has once again put all students concerned with colonial America heavily in his intellectual debt."--Jack P. Greene, The New York Historical Society Quarterly " . . . Mr. Bailyn brings to his effort a splendid gift for pertinent curiosity. What he has found, and what patterns he has made of his findings, light our way through his longitudes and latitudes of scholarly precision."--Charles Poore, The New York Times show lessTags
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This book contains three essays on political society in the North American English colonies in the early 18th century. The author portrays interesting parallels and divergencies between English and American societies, especially in light of the political ideas that the Americans inherited from England. Although the book is quite brief, it still manages to convey a reasonably comprehensive account of the problems that underlay the revolution. It certainly made me want to read other books by this author.
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Bernard Bailyn was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1922, and did his undergraduate work at Williams College. He began his teaching career at Harvard University immediately after the university granted him a Ph.D. in 1953, and he remained there until he retired in 1991. During his tenure at Harvard, he was Winthrop Professor, Adams University show more Professor, and James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History. For years Bailyn was editor in chief of the Harvard Library and director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. An innovative and influential historian of early America, Bernard Bailyn has written quantitative studies of the colonial New England economy, probing examinations of the ideological origins of the American Revolution, and penetrating studies of the social and cultural foundations of American education. Bailyn is particularly adept at interweaving social, intellectual, economic, and political factors into coherent narrative history. A pioneer in adapting the new tools of social science to the writing of history, he is also a fine literary stylist. Bailyn has been Pitt Professor at Cambridge University and president of the American Historical Association. He holds membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in the British Academy. His writings have earned him the Bancroft Prize and the National Book Award. Bailyn received two Pulitzers-one in 1968 for The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), which challenges traditional interpretations of the causes of the American Revolution, and the other in 1987 for Voyagers to the West (1986), which explores reasons for migration to America just prior to the Revolution. His other work includes The Barbarous Years (2013) and Illuminating History: A Retrospective of Seven Decades (2020). Bernard Bailyn, author of over 20 books, died on August 7, 2020 at the age of 97. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1970
- Important places
- USA
- First words
- The political and ideological background of the American Revolution has been studied by more people over a longer period of time than any other topic in American history.
- Original language
- English
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government
- DDC/MDS
- 973.2 — History & geography History of North America United States Colonial period (1607-1775)
- LCC
- JK54 .B3 — Political Science Political institutions and public administration (United States) Political institutions and public administration United States
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 2
- ASINs
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