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| 100 | 1 | ▼a Bailyn, Bernard. |
| 245 | 1 0 | ▼a Sometimes an art : ▼b nine essays on history / ▼c by Bernard Bailyn. |
| 250 | ▼a 1st ed. | |
| 260 | ▼a New York : ▼b Alfred A. Knopf, ▼c 2015. | |
| 264 | 1 | ▼a New York : ▼b Alfred A. Knopf, ▼c 2015. |
| 300 | ▼a 307 p. ; ▼c 22 cm. | |
| 336 | ▼a text ▼b txt ▼2 rdacontent | |
| 337 | ▼a unmediated ▼b n ▼2 rdamedia | |
| 338 | ▼a volume ▼b nc ▼2 rdacarrier | |
| 500 | ▼a "This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso. | |
| 504 | ▼a Includes bibliographical references and index. | |
| 505 | 0 | ▼a Part One. On history and the struggle to get it right -- Considering the slave trade : history and memory -- Context in history -- Three trends in modern history -- History and the creative imagination -- The losers -- Part Two. The peripheries of the first British Empire -- Thomas Hutchinson in context : the ordeal revisited -- England's cultural provinces : Scotland and America (co-authored with John Clive) -- Peopling the peripheries -- The search for perfection -- Appendix. |
| 520 | 2 | ▼a "From one of the most respected historians in America, twice the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a new collection of essays that reflect a lifetime of erudition and accomplishments in history. The past has always been elusive: how can we understand people whose worlds were utterly different from our own without imposing our own standards and hindsight? What did things feel like in the moment when outcomes were uncertain? How can we recover the uncertainties of the past, before the outcomes were known? What kind of imagination goes into the writing of transformative history? Are there latent trends that distinguish the kinds of history we now write? How unique was North America among the far-flung peripheries of the early British empire? As Bernard Bailyn argues in this elegant, deeply informed collection of essays, history always combines approximations based on incomplete data, with empathic imagination and the interweaving of strands of knowledge into a narrative which also explains. This is a stirring and insightful work drawing on the wisdom and perspective of a career spanning more than five decades--a book that will appeal to anyone interested in history"--From publisher's website. |
| 650 | 0 | ▼a History ▼x Philosophy. |
| 650 | 0 | ▼a Historiography ▼x Philosophy. |
| 651 | 0 | ▼a Great Britain ▼x Colonies ▼x Historiography. |
| 651 | 0 | ▼a United States ▼x Historiography. |
| 945 | ▼a ITMT |
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Book Introduction
"From one of the most respected historians in America, twice the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a new collection of essays that reflect a lifetime of erudition and accomplishments in history. The past has always been elusive: how can we understand people whose worlds were utterly different from our own without imposing our own standards and hindsight? What did things feel like in the moment when outcomes were uncertain? How can we recover the uncertainties of the past, before the outcomes were known? Whatkind of imagination goes into the writing of transformative history? Are there latent trends that distinguish the kinds of history we now write? How unique was North America among the far-flung peripheries of the early British empire? As Bernard Bailyn argues in this elegant, deeply informed collection of essays, history always combines approximations based on incomplete data, with empathic imagination and the interweaving of strands of knowledge into a narrative which also explains. This is a stirring and insightful work drawing on the wisdom and perspective of a career spanning more than five decades--a book that will appeal to anyone interested in history"--From publisher's website.
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Author Introduction
버나드 베일린(지은이)
윌리엄스칼리지를 졸업하고 하버드대학에서 박사학위를 받았으며, 현재 하버드대학 명예석좌교수로 재직 중이다. 미국역사학회 회장을 역임하였으며, 퓰리처상을 비롯해 여러 저술상을 받은 미국 역사학계를 대표하는 역사가이다. 주요 저서로는 The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967, 퓰리처상과 뱅크로프트상 수상. 『미국혁명의 이데올로기적 기원』으로 번역됨), The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson (1974, 전미도서상 수상), Voyagers to the West (1986, 퓰리처상 수상) 등이 있다.
Table of Contents
Preface
PART ONE
On History and the Struggle to Get It Right
1. Considering the Slave Trade: History and Memory
2. Context in History
3. Three Trends in Modern History
4. History and the Creative Imagination
5. The Losers
PART TWO
Peripheries of the Early British Empire
6. Thomas Hutchinson in Context: The Ordeal Revisited
7. England’s Cultural Provinces: Scotland and America
(co-authored with John Clive)
8. Peopling the Peripheries
9. The Search for Perfection: Atlantic Dimensions
Appendix
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index