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Crédit image: H. B. Hall, Jr.

Œuvres de George Bancroft

Poems 2 exemplaires
Ancient Greece (1847) 2 exemplaires

Oeuvres associées

The Modern Historiography Reader: Western Sources (2008) — Contributeur — 37 exemplaires
American Literature: The Makers and the Making (In Two Volumes) (1973) — Contributeur, quelques éditions25 exemplaires

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Date de naissance
1800-10-03
Date de décès
1891-01-17
Lieu de sépulture
Rural Cemetery, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Sexe
male
Nationalité
USA
Lieu de naissance
Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Lieu du décès
Washington, D.C., USA
Lieux de résidence
Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Heidelberg, Germany
Göttingen, Germany
Berlin, Germany
Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
Washington, D.C., USA (tout afficher 7)
Rose Cliff, Newport, Rhode Island, USA
Études
Phillips Exeter Academy
Harvard College
University of Göttingen (PhD ∙ 1820)
Professions
historian
professor
poet
translator
customs officer
Secretary of the Navy (tout afficher 10)
Secretary of War
established the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, USA
established the Round Hill School at Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
minister to Berlin
Relations
Bancroft, Aaron (father)
Macaulay, Thomas Babington (friend)
Hallam, Arthur Henry (friend)
Organisations
American Historical Association ( [1886])
American Geographical Society (founding member ∙ president)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Round Hill School, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
North American Review
Customs of the Port of Boston (tout afficher 7)
United States Naval Academy
Prix et distinctions
The Hall of Fame for Great Americans (1910)
Chosen by Congress to give eulogy for President Lincoln
Bancroft treaties
USS Bancroft
Bancroft Hall, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland
Bancroft Hall, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire (tout afficher 7)
Bancroft Tower, Worcester, Massachusetts
Courte biographie
As Collector of Customs of the Port of Boston, Bancroft hired Nathaniel Hawthorne and Orestes Brownson.

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The first American scholar to actually work with Goethe, brought back enlightenment themes from the German, and antedated and contributed to the flowering of Transcendentalism. Appeals to free markets and the existence of a factual truth free of prejudice.
He saw himself as a scribe of important dynamics: "The formation in the New World of a people of European origin with a political life of its own was the most pregnant event of the seventeenth century....every effort, every contention, every war pointed to the rivalry of the powers of Europe in North America." It's hard not to get caught up in the sweep arm of this clock.… (plus d'informations)
 
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Membres
350
Popularité
#68,329
Évaluation
4.1
Critiques
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ISBN
60
Langues
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