Illuminating history : a retrospective of seven decades
2020
973.2 B182 2020
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Title
Illuminating history : a retrospective of seven decades
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : W. W. Norton & Co., 2020.
Description
xii, 270 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
973.2 B182 2020
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1120093834
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-254) and index.
Bailyn revisits the major phases of his long career and offers readers new insights into history and his distinctive approach to understanding it. From his early work on the New England merchants through his groundbreaking study of the American Revolution and on into his long engagement with the peopling of America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, One chapter focuses on the Boston merchant Robert Keayne, tormented by the conflicts between his Puritan religious beliefs and his drive to succeed in business. Another gives us the unforgettable Harbottle Dorr, a Boston tradesman who slices out newspaper accounts of British tyranny and assembles them into massive, annotated scrapbooks that scream with outrage at the affronts to American liberty. Johann Conrad Beissel, a German mystic, comes to life in another chapter on the sect-like Ephrata community he founded in the area of Germantown, PA.--Provided by publisher.
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Bailyn revisits the major phases of his long career and offers readers new insights into history and his distinctive approach to understanding it. From his early work on the New England merchants through his groundbreaking study of the American Revolution and on into his long engagement with the peopling of America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, One chapter focuses on the Boston merchant Robert Keayne, tormented by the conflicts between his Puritan religious beliefs and his drive to succeed in business. Another gives us the unforgettable Harbottle Dorr, a Boston tradesman who slices out newspaper accounts of British tyranny and assembles them into massive, annotated scrapbooks that scream with outrage at the affronts to American liberty. Johann Conrad Beissel, a German mystic, comes to life in another chapter on the sect-like Ephrata community he founded in the area of Germantown, PA.--Provided by publisher.
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