Bernard Bailyn did his undergraduate work at Williams College and his graduate work at Harvard, where he is currently Adams University Professor and James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History Emeritus. His previous books include The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century; Education in the Forming of American Society; The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, which received the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes; The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson, which won the National Book Award for History; Voyagers to the West, which won the Pulitzer Prize; Faces of Revolution- Personalities and Themes in the Struggle for American Independence; To Begin the World Anew- The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders; and Atlantic History- Concept and Contours. In 2011 he received the National Humanities Medal.
“Bailyn spares no gory detail, but he treats his subjects with
sympathy.” —The New Yorker
“The Barbarous Years, the long-awaited companion to Voyagers to the
West, is an even greater achievement. . . . Both in the span of
time he examines (the years 1600 to 1675) and in his effort to
capture the full range of ‘the conflict of civilizations’ in the
early European colonization of North America, The Barbarous Years
is Bailyn’s most ambitious book.” —The Daily Beast
“Bailyn’s extensive skills at demography, material history, and
ideological history are on full display.” —The Wilson Quarterly
“Barbarous Years [is] a cornucopia of human folly, mischief and
intrigue.” —The Washington Independent Review of Books
“Bailyn has given readers a bracing, unvarnished account of a
century that determined what would follow.” —Richmond
Times-Dispatch
“Throughout the book, Mr. Bailyn patiently explains the origins of
the people who migrated to America. Readers learn which regions of
England, the Netherlands and Scandinavia produced the most
migrants, which social classes were best represented, and the
extent to which young males predominated within various migrant
flows.” —The Wall Street Journal
“Magisterial. . . . Popular histories often gentrify these early
events, but Bailyn’s gripping, detailed, often squirm-inducing
account makes it abundantly clear how ungenteel they actually
were.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Drawing on decades of sound, dynamic research, the author has
provided scholars and general readers alike with an insightful and
engaging account of Colonial America that signals a reset on
Colonial studies, the culmination of his work. An important book. .
. . Superbly told.” —Library Journal (starred review)
“In Bailyn’s perceptive and erudite hands, the original British,
Dutch, and Swedish ventures assume as wild and variegated guises as
did the forceful individuals who embarked on them.” —Booklist
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