Oscar Handlin (1915–2011)
Auteur de The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations That Made the American People
A propos de l'auteur
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Oscar Handlin received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he has taught since 1939 and was director of the Center for the Study of the History of Liberty until 1966. From 1979 to 1984, he was director of the university library at Harvard, and, after holding the afficher plus Charles Warren chair in history for many years, in 1984 he became Charles M. Loeb University Professor. Handlin, who is a consensus historian and a strong advocate of civil rights, has written extensively on urban history and immigration. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1952 for The Uprooted (1951), his study of immigrants in the eastern cities of America written from the perspective of the immigrant. The son of immigrant parents himself, he made his special field of study the social history of immigrant groups who came to the United States in the nineteenth century from eastern and southern Europe. In The Americans (1963), as in others of his books, he dispensed with footnotes, bibliography, and identification of quotations in favor of "unobtrusive" learning. Handlin edited Children of the Uprooted (1966), which includes excerpts from various authors on the subject of the "marginality" of immigrants, and collaborated on a number of works with his first wife, Mary, and his second wife, Lillian. On the subject of education, he wrote The American University as an Instrument of Republican Culture (1970) and John Dewey's Challenge to Education: Historical Perspectives on the Cultural Context (1959). (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Oscar Handlin
The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations That Made the American People (1951) 379 exemplaires
A continuing task; the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee,: 1914-1964 (1964) 31 exemplaires
Commonwealth: A Study of the Role of Government in the American Economy: Massachusetts, 1774-1861 (1987) 18 exemplaires
Liberty in Expansion, 1760-1850 (Handlin, Oscar//Liberty in America, 1600 to the Present) (1989) 13 exemplaires
The popular sources of political authority; documents on the Massachusetts constitution of 1780 (1966) 7 exemplaires
Liberty and Equality 1920-1994 (Handlin, Oscar//Liberty in America, 1600 to the Present) (1871) 6 exemplaires
Liberty in Peril, 1850-1920 (Handlin, Oscar//Liberty in America, 1600 to the Present) (1992) 6 exemplaires
The American College and American Culture: Socialization As a Function of Higher Education, (1970) 6 exemplaires
Lincoln and the Union 3 exemplaires
American Principles and Issues: The National Purpose 2 exemplaires
The American people: the history of a society 2 exemplaires
Origins of the American Business Corporation 1 exemplaire
Henry Clay and the Art of American Politics 1 exemplaire
Rabbi in America: The Story of Isaac M. Wise 1 exemplaire
Daniel Webster and the Rise of National Conservatism 1 exemplaire
Introduction 1 exemplaire
Dissent, Democracy, and foreign policy; a symposium 1 exemplaire
William H. Welch and the Rise of Modern Medicine 1 exemplaire
New Worlds, New Visions 1 exemplaire
America a story 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
From Puritan to Yankee: Character and the Social Order in Connecticut, 1690-1765 (1967) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions — 174 exemplaires
U.S. Grant and the American military tradition (1954) — Introduction, quelques éditions — 126 exemplaires
American genesis : Captain John Smith and the founding of Virginia (1975) — Directeur de publication — 93 exemplaires
Slave and Citizen: The Life of Frederick Douglas (Library of American Biography Series) (1980) — Directeur de publication — 62 exemplaires
Aliens and Dissenters: Federal Suppression of Radicals, 1903-1933 (1963) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions — 60 exemplaires
The Forty-Eighters: Political Refugees of the German Revolution of 1848 (1967) — Contributeur — 9 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Handlin, Oscar
- Date de naissance
- 1915-09-29
- Date de décès
- 2011-09-20
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Études
- Harvard University (PhD|History)
Brooklyn College - Professions
- historian
- Relations
- Handlin, Mary Flug (wife, deceased)
Handlin, Lilian (wife) - Prix et distinctions
- Union League History Prize
Pulitzer Prize (History, 1952)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 62
- Aussi par
- 8
- Membres
- 1,449
- Popularité
- #17,737
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 10
- ISBN
- 68
- Langues
- 2