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Illuminating history : a retrospective of seven decades, Bernard Bailyn
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- Summary
- "A series of brilliant historical portraits combine to create a self-portrait of one of our greatest historians. With characteristic vitality and brilliance, Bernard Bailyn revisits the major phases of his long, pathbreaking 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, Bailyn draws us into characters and events in fascinating detail. 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. The eighteenth century German pietist community followed eccentric sexual and dietary practices in keeping with their strange, hallucinatory religious visions. Beissel was also a genius of musical composition. His distinctive harmonies found beautiful expression in the haunting singing of the congregation. The energetic portraits of "luminous individuals," vivid and often funny, coalesce into a selfportrait of the author, the great historian"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xii, 270 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction : Entering the past
- Keayne's will, "all of it writen with my owne hands" : Puritanism's double bind
- Laslett's Clayworth : Andover and Heidenreichstein : the variant structures of family life
- Harbottle's index, Johnson's "connection," and the villagers' theories of government : the penetration of revolutionary thought
- Beissel's Ephrata and the music of the spheres : utopian flowering in an unencumbered land
- The Hutchinsons' network and beyond : the contours of Atlantic history
- Epilogue : The elusive past
- Appendix : Morison and Handlin
- Isbn
- 9781324005834
- Label
- Illuminating history : a retrospective of seven decades
- Title
- Illuminating history
- Title remainder
- a retrospective of seven decades
- Statement of responsibility
- Bernard Bailyn
- Subject
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- Autobiographies
- Autobiography
- Bailyn, Bernard
- Bailyn, Bernard
- Bailyn, Bernard
- Biographies
- Biographies
- Biographies
- Biography
- Civilization
- HISTORY / Historiography
- HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century
- HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century
- Historians
- Historians -- United States -- Biography
- Autobiographies
- Historiens -- États-Unis -- Biographies
- History
- To 1783
- United States
- United States -- Civilization -- To 1783
- United States -- Civilization -- To 1783
- United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Biography
- États-Unis -- Civilisation -- Jusqu'à 1783
- États-Unis -- Histoire -- ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale) -- Biographies
- Historians -- United States -- Biography
- Autobiographies
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "A series of brilliant historical portraits combine to create a self-portrait of one of our greatest historians. With characteristic vitality and brilliance, Bernard Bailyn revisits the major phases of his long, pathbreaking 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, Bailyn draws us into characters and events in fascinating detail. 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. The eighteenth century German pietist community followed eccentric sexual and dietary practices in keeping with their strange, hallucinatory religious visions. Beissel was also a genius of musical composition. His distinctive harmonies found beautiful expression in the haunting singing of the congregation. The energetic portraits of "luminous individuals," vivid and often funny, coalesce into a selfportrait of the author, the great historian"--
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- Biography type
- collective biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
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- Bailyn, Bernard
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Bailyn, Bernard
- Bailyn, Bernard
- Bailyn, Bernard
- United States
- United States
- Historians
- États-Unis
- États-Unis
- Historiens
- HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century
- HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century
- HISTORY / Historiography
- Historians
- United States
- United States
- Civilization
- Historians
- United States
- Label
- Illuminating history : a retrospective of seven decades, Bernard Bailyn
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-254) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction : Entering the past -- Keayne's will, "all of it writen with my owne hands" : Puritanism's double bind -- Laslett's Clayworth : Andover and Heidenreichstein : the variant structures of family life -- Harbottle's index, Johnson's "connection," and the villagers' theories of government : the penetration of revolutionary thought -- Beissel's Ephrata and the music of the spheres : utopian flowering in an unencumbered land -- The Hutchinsons' network and beyond : the contours of Atlantic history -- Epilogue : The elusive past -- Appendix : Morison and Handlin
- Control code
- 1120093834
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xii, 270 pages
- Isbn
- 9781324005834
- Lccn
- 2019050520
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 600, 650, 651
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1120093834
- Label
- Illuminating history : a retrospective of seven decades, Bernard Bailyn
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-254) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction : Entering the past -- Keayne's will, "all of it writen with my owne hands" : Puritanism's double bind -- Laslett's Clayworth : Andover and Heidenreichstein : the variant structures of family life -- Harbottle's index, Johnson's "connection," and the villagers' theories of government : the penetration of revolutionary thought -- Beissel's Ephrata and the music of the spheres : utopian flowering in an unencumbered land -- The Hutchinsons' network and beyond : the contours of Atlantic history -- Epilogue : The elusive past -- Appendix : Morison and Handlin
- Control code
- 1120093834
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xii, 270 pages
- Isbn
- 9781324005834
- Lccn
- 2019050520
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 600, 650, 651
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1120093834
Subject
- Autobiographies
- Autobiography
- Bailyn, Bernard
- Bailyn, Bernard
- Bailyn, Bernard
- Biographies
- Biographies
- Biographies
- Biography
- Civilization
- HISTORY / Historiography
- HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century
- HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century
- Historians
- Historians -- United States -- Biography
- Autobiographies
- Historiens -- États-Unis -- Biographies
- History
- To 1783
- United States
- United States -- Civilization -- To 1783
- United States -- Civilization -- To 1783
- United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Biography
- États-Unis -- Civilisation -- Jusqu'à 1783
- États-Unis -- Histoire -- ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale) -- Biographies
- Historians -- United States -- Biography
- Autobiographies
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