Bernard Bailyn

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1) The New England merchants in the seventeenth century

Author

Bailyn, Bernard

Series

Studies in entrepreneurial history

Pub. Date

1955

Physical Desc

viii, 249 pages illustrations, maps, genealogical table. 24 cm.

Language

English

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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.

2) The ideological origins of the American Revolution

Author

Bailyn, Bernard

Pub. Date

1967

Physical Desc

xiii, 335 pages ; 22 cm

Language

English

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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...

3) The barbarous years: the peopling of British North America : the conflict of civilizations, 1600-1675

Author

Bailyn, Bernard

Pub. Date

2012

Edition

1st ed.

Physical Desc

xv, 614 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Language

English

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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.