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Faces of Revolution - Personalities and Themes in the Struggle for American Independence by Bernard Bailyn
Category: Popular History
Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Bernard Bailyn brings us a book that combines portraits of American revolutionaries with a deft exploration of the ideas that moved them and still shape our society today.
IDEOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN REVO by BAILYN BERNARD
Category: History
To the original text of what has become a classic of American historical literature, Bernard Bailyn adds a substantial essay, "Fulfillment," as a Postscript. Here he discusses the intense, nation-wide debate on the ratification of the Constitution, stressing the continuities between that struggle over t ...Show more
Sometimes an Art: 9 Essays on History by Bernard Bailyn
Category: World 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 the uncertainties of the past, before the outcomes we ...Show more
The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America-The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675 by Bernard Bailyn
Category: Popular History
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Bernard Bailyn gives us a compelling, fresh account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to British North America, their involvements with each other, and their struggles with the indigenous peoples of the eastern seaboard. The immigrants ...Show more
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn
Category: Popular History
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, awarded both the Pulitzer and the Bancroft prizes, has become a classic of American historical literature. Hailed at its first appearance as "the most brilliant study of the meaning of the Revolution to appear in a generation," it was enlarged in a sec ...Show more
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