Bernard Bailyn
Author
Pub. Date
1955
Physical Desc
viii, 249 pages illustrations, maps, genealogical table. 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In detail Bailyn here presents the struggle of the merchants to achieve full social recognition as their successes in trade and in such industries as fishing and lumbering offered them avenues to power. Surveying the rise of merchant families, he offers a look in depth of the emergence of a new social group whose interests and changing social position powerfully affected the developing character of American society.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 614 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
From an acclaimed historian of early America, a compelling account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to the British colonies of North America and their involvements with each other and the indigenous peoples of the eastern seaboard.
Author
Pub. Date
1967
Physical Desc
xiii, 335 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
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 the foundations of the national government and the original principles of the Revolution. This detailed study of the persistence of the nation's ideological...
Author
Series
Curti lectures volume 1985
Pub. Date
1986
Physical Desc
xi, 177 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English