Background
Arthur M. Schlesinger was born in Xenia, Ohio, on February 27, 1888, the son of a first-generation immigrant.
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The Birth of the Nation: A Portrait of the American People on the Eve of Independence (American Heritage Library)
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Here is the product of Arthur Schlesinger's determination to bring to life the ordinary lives and concerns of Americans in the mid-to-late 18th century. This is a book for the increasing number of Americans who, in recent years, have become curious about their nation's roots. 7,500 print.
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Prelude To Independence The Newspaper War On Britain 1764 1776
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The Rise of the City 1878 1898 (URBAN LIFE & URBAN LANDSCAPE)
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Arthur Meier Schlesinger (1888-1965) was one of the most influential historians of the first half of the twentieth century. He encouraged new approaches to the study of history, and he played a founding role in the study of the city in American culture. His classic work, The Rise of the City, was first published in 1933 and was reprinted repeatedly during the next forty years. Beginning in the rural South and West and concluding with the triumph of urban civilization. Schlesinger definitively chronicled the fundamental shift from America as a rural agricultural society to America as an urban industrial center. He further suggested that the cities, not Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier, have shaped our nation's story. Andrea Tuttle Kornbluh has written a new introduction's story. Andrea Tuttle Kornbluh has written a new introduction for this edition, placing Schlesinger's achievements in the context of the development of American urban studies.
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The Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution, 1763-1776 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution, 1763-1776 A greater number of investigations of the American revolutionary epoch have been made in the last three or four decades than in all the preceding years. This dili gence has been the outgrowth of the modern spirit of historical research and has been productive of results which completely discredit the simple formulae by which the earlier historians explained the colonial revolt. In the light of these studies it is now almost universally agreed that the revolutionary movement was the product of a complexity of forces, governmental and personal, British and colonial, social, economic, geographical and religious. N o definitive history of the American Revol ution can be written until it becomes possible to appraise each one of these factors at its true value. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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New Viewpoints in American History
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The American as reformer / Arthur M. Schlesinger
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Paths to the present
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Schlesinger, Arthur M., Paths To The Present
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Political and Social Growth of the American People 1865-1940
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Political and social history of the United States, 1829-1925,
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Arthur Meier Schlesinger Sr.
Edit ProfileEducation
Schlesinger graduated in 1910 from Ohio State University. As a graduate student at Columbia, he was influenced by Herbert Levi Osgood, James Harvey Robinson, and Charles A. Beard. His dissertation, finished in 1917, was The Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution (1918), which Sir Denis Brogan called "perhaps the most remarkable Ph. D. dissertation in modern American historiography. " Schlesinger had used Osgood's methods and Beard's insights.
In 1917 he received his doctorate.
Career
While finishing his dissertation, Schlesinger taught at Ohio State, beginning in 1912. He became a full professor in 1917.
In 1919 he moved to the State University of Iowa as chairman of the history department. In 1922 he inaugurated a course entitled "Social and Cultural History of the United States, " the first of its kind in the country. His New Viewpoints in American History (1922) presents his ideas on the craft and content of history. He joined Harvard in 1924 as a visiting professor of history and became Francis Lee Higginson professor of history in 1939. He was a charter member of the Social Science Research Council, an organization he later chaired (1930-1933).
The first four volumes of A History of American Life, under the joint editorship of Schlesinger and Dixon Ryan Fox, appeared in 1927. Schlesinger's own contribution was volume 10, The Rise of the City, 1878-1898 (1933), an outstanding pioneer effort in social and urban history. The 13-volume series was completed in 1948 and was an original attempt to portray the everyday life of ordinary people, touching on health, public welfare, and recreation. Schlesinger also wrote college texts during this period. His interest in immigration led him to finish two books by Marcus Lee Hansen: The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860 (1940), which won a Pulitzer Prize, and The Immigrant in American History (1940). His presidential address to the American Historical Association in 1942, reprinted in his Paths to the Present (1949), again called attention to the study of American character.
Schlesinger retired from Harvard in 1953. He died on October 30, 1965.
Achievements
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The American historian Arthur Meier Schlesinger was one of the pioneers in the study of the social aspects of American history.
He was a Progressive Era intellectual who stressed material causes (such as economic profit and conflict between businessmen and farmers) and downplayed ideology and values as motivations for historical actors. He was highly influential as a director of PhD dissertations at Harvard for three decades, especially in the fields of social, women's, and immigration history.
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The Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution, 1763-1776 (Classic Reprint)
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The Birth of the Nation: A Portrait of the American People on the Eve of Independence (American Heritage Library)
(Here is the product of Arthur Schlesinger's determination...)
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The Rise of the City 1878 1898 (URBAN LIFE & URBAN LANDSCAPE)
( Arthur Meier Schlesinger (1888-1965) was one of the mos...)
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New Viewpoints in American History
(Leopold is delighted to publish this classic book as part...)
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Prelude To Independence The Newspaper War On Britain 1764 1776
(This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)
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Paths to the present
(Schlesinger, Arthur M., Paths To The Present)
- In retrospect: the history of a historian
- The American as reformer / Arthur M. Schlesinger
- Political and Social Growth of the American People 1865-1940
- Political and social history of the United States, 1829-1925,
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The Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution, 1763-1776 (Classic Reprint)
Views
Quotations: “These urban provinces, new to the American scene, possess greater economic, social, and cultural unity than most of the states. Yet, subdivided into separate municipalities. .. they face grave difficulties in meeting the essential needs of the aggregate population. ”
Connections
During his stay at Ohio State, he married Elizabeth Bancroft.
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