The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson

The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson
Title The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson PDF eBook
Author Bernard Bailyn
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 468
Release 1974
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780674641617

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The paradoxical and tragic story of America's most prominent Loyalist - a man caught between king and country.

The Origins of American Politics

The Origins of American Politics
Title The Origins of American Politics PDF eBook
Author Bernard Bailyn
Publisher Vintage
Pages 193
Release 1970-10-12
Genre History
ISBN 0394708652

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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 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

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
Title The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution PDF eBook
Author Bernard Bailyn
Publisher
Pages 335
Release 1976
Genre United States
ISBN

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Sometimes an Art

Sometimes an Art
Title Sometimes an Art PDF eBook
Author Bernard Bailyn
Publisher Knopf
Pages 221
Release 2015-01-20
Genre History
ISBN 1101874481

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From one of the most respected historians in America, twice the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a new collection of essays that reflects a lifetime of erudition and accomplishments in history. The past has always been elusive: How can we understand people whose worlds were utterly different from our own without imposing our own standards and hindsight? What did things feel like in the moment, when outcomes were uncertain? How can we recover those uncertainties? What kind of imagination goes into the writing of transformative history? Are there latent trends that distinguish the kinds of history we now write? How unique was North America among the far-flung peripheries of the early British empire? As Bernard Bailyn argues in this elegant, deeply informed collection of essays, history always combines approximations based on incomplete data with empathic imagination, interweaving strands of knowledge into a narrative that also explains. This is a stirring and insightful work drawing on the wisdom and perspective of a career spanning more than five decades—a book that will appeal to anyone interested in history.

Illuminating History

Illuminating History
Title Illuminating History PDF eBook
Author Bernard Bailyn
Publisher National Geographic Books
Pages 0
Release 2021-06-08
Genre History
ISBN 0393541525

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The brilliance of a master historian shines through this “elegant and engaging memoir” of a lifetime’s work (Richard Aldous, Wall Street Journal). Over a remarkable career Bernard Bailyn has reshaped our understanding of the early American past. Inscribing his superb scholarship with passion and imagination honed by a commitment to rigor, Bailyn captures the particularity of the past and its broad significance in precise, elegant prose. His transformative work has ranged from a new reckoning with the ideology that powered the opposition to British authority in the American Revolution, to a sweeping account of the peopling of America, and the critical nurturing of a new field, the history of the Atlantic world. Illuminating History is the most personal of Bailyn’s works. It is in part an intellectual memoir of the significant turns in an immensely productive and influential scholarly career. It is also alive with people whose actions touched the long arc of history. Among the dramatic human stories that command our attention: a struggling Boston merchant tormented by the tensions between capitalist avarice and a constrictive Puritan piety; an ordinary shopkeeper who in a unique way feverishly condemned British authority as corrupt and unworthy of public confidence; a charismatic German Pietist who founded a cloister in the Pennsylvania wilderness famous for its strange theosophy, its spartan lifestyle, and its rich musical and artistic achievement. And the good townspeople of Petersham, whose response in 1780 to a draft Massachusetts constitution speaks directly to us through a moving insistence on individual freedoms in the face of an imposing central authority. Here is vivid history and an illuminating self-portrait from one of the most eminent historians of our time.

The Witchcraft Delusion of 1692

The Witchcraft Delusion of 1692
Title The Witchcraft Delusion of 1692 PDF eBook
Author Thomas Hutchinson
Publisher
Pages 54
Release 1870
Genre Witchcraft
ISBN

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The Witchcraft Delusion of 1692 is such an interesting resource because it was published nearly 200 years after the Salem Witch Trials, and thus it reflects the radically changed attitudes toward the Trials over that time.

Voyagers to the West

Voyagers to the West
Title Voyagers to the West PDF eBook
Author Bernard Bailyn
Publisher Vintage
Pages 721
Release 2011-08-03
Genre History
ISBN 0307798526

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Saloutos Prize of the Immigration History Society Bailyn's Pulitzer Prize-winning book uses an emigration roster that lists every person officially known to have left Britain for America from December 1773 to March 1776 to reconstruct the lives and motives of those who emigrated to the New World. "Voyagers to the West is a superb book...It should be equally admired by and equally attractive to the general reader as to the professional historian."--R.C. Simmons, Journal of American Studies