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The Great republic: A history of the American people

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"This book is a history of the American people, from the earliest settlements in the New World to the 200th anniversary of the birth of the United States as a nation" - The Authors

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First published January 1, 1977

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Bernard Bailyn

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Bernard Bailyn is an American historian, author, and professor specializing in U.S. Colonial and Revolutionary-era History. He has been a professor at Harvard since 1953. Bailyn has won the Pulitzer Prize for History twice (in 1968 and 1987). In 1998 the National Endowment for the Humanities selected him for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities.

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September 10, 2018
The Great Republic is a powerhouse collection of sincerely researched expositions on so many aspects of American history that you think you know. Be prepared for an education.

Bernard Bailyn is, justifiably, the lead batter on this team of notable historians. Bailyn offers 26 essays on “Shaping the Republic, to 1760” that will almost certainly expand your understanding of the Pilgrims, the Puritans, Britain’s fumbling attempts at empire building, the unique flowering of American societies, colonial commerce, the origins of slavery, the Great Awakening, and the nuances of politics in the North American colonies before the Revolutionary War.

Gordon Wood and the other authors score, in similarly erudite fashion, with insightful commentaries on the Revolution, commercial/industrial development and westward expansion of the American republic, the American Civil War, and all of the post-war Reconstruction efforts that weren’t really successful.

This first installment of The Great Republic is a go-to book for historians and students of history. It’s a come-back-to book for wannabe historians like me.

Note: the extensive bibliography is as valuable as the text
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January 20, 2023
3.5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️

È un saggio che mi sento di consigliare a chi, per semplice curiosità o per preparare esami inerenti alla materia, volesse capire meglio il periodo. La prosa è scorrevole e le informazioni esposte non appesantiscono il testo.
Il mio voto basso (avrebbe meritato un 4 stelle, quattro stelle e mezzo) nasce dal poco, pochissimo spazio riservato alla questione schiavistica e a quella dei popoli nativi.
È vero che si tratta di una storia degli Stati Uniti, cioè degli eventi che condussero prima alla formazione delle colonie, poi alla costituzione della repubblica federale che esiste ancora oggi e ai suoi primi passi (fino al 1820): ma i paragrafi dedicati ai rapporti tra le popolazioni native, gli schiavi neri e la maggioranza bianca sono davvero limitati quantitativamente, privando così, a mio avviso, i lettori di un quadro che deve prendere in esame anche queste storie (perché sono storie simili ma allo stesso tempo distinte quelle degli schiavi e quelle dei nativi).
Da apprezzare, comunque, che in questi pochi paragrafi si mettesse alla luce l’ipocrisia (termine usato dagli stessi autori), anche se dettata dai valori dell’epoca, delle elites protestanti bianche che da un lato reclamavano per sè la libertà e l’uguaglianza, valori fondanti del repubblicanesimo settecentesco, dall’altra escludevano tutti coloro che non erano simili a loro per idee, nascita, religione e provenienze.
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September 12, 2020
nice book it is an important book for my graduation in history
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