Лучшие книги Бернарда Бейлина

"Идеологические истоки Американской революции" Бернарда Бейлина - классическое исследование интеллектуальной атмосферы, в которой сформировался идеологический фундамент Соединенных Штатов Америки - самой амбициозной и самой успешной в мировой истории попытки создать государство, опираясь на новые политические идеи, а не традиции и образцы других стран. Описывая вдохновляющий пример влияния общественной дискуссии о границах государственной власти на ход политических событий, Бейлин показывает, каким образом радикальные идеи свободы личности и ограниченного государства смогли стать основой жизнеспособного политического устройства.

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize

A compelling, fresh account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to British North America, their involvements with each other, and their struggles with the indigenous peoples of the eastern seaboard.

The immigrants were a mixed multitude. They came from England, the Netherlands, the German and Italian states, France, Africa, Sweden, and Finland, and they moved to the western hemisphere for different reasons, from different social backgrounds and cultures. They represented a spectrum of religious attachments. In the early years, their stories are not mainly of triumph but of confusion, failure, violence, and the loss of civility as they sought to normalize situations and recapture lost worlds. It was a thoroughly brutal encounter—not only between the Europeans and native peoples and between Europeans and Africans, but among Europeans themselves, as they sought to control and prosper in the new configurations of life that were emerging around them.
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Bailyn's Pulitzer Prize-winning book uses an emigration roster that lists every person officially known to have left Britain for America from December 1773 to March 1776 to reconstruct the lives and motives of those who emigrated to the New World.
"Voyagers to the West is a superb book. . . . It should be equally admired by and equally attractive to the general reader as to the professional historian."--R.C. Simmons, Journal of American Studies