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Caroline Robbins (1903–1999)

Auteur de The Eighteenth-Century Commonwealthman

3+ oeuvres 72 utilisateurs 1 Critiques

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Caroline Robbins [1903-1999] was educated at the University of London, receiving her Ph.D. there before going to the United States. She taught history at Bryn Mawr College from 1929 to 1971 and was chairman of the department

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Fame and the Founding Fathers (1974) — Personal memoir — 61 exemplaires
The development of a revolutionary mentality; papers (1972) — Contributeur — 22 exemplaires

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Date de naissance
1903-08-18
Date de décès
1999-02-15
Sexe
female
Nationalité
England (birth)
USA (naturalized | 1933)
Lieu de naissance
Sipson, England, UK
Lieux de résidence
Rosemont, Pennsylvania, USA
Études
University of London (BA ∙ PhD)
Royal Holloway College (1924)
Organisations
American Historical Association
Renaissance Society of America
American Association of University Professors
American Association of University Women
League of Women Voters
Institute of Early American History and Culture (tout afficher 11)
Conference on British Studies
Royal Historical Society (fellow)
Massachusetts Historical Association (honorary member)
Pennsylvania Historical Association
Radnor Historical Society
Courte biographie
Caroline Robbins was born to a farming family in Middlesex, England. Her parents were strict Baptists, but she did not follow their faith, though she was proud of her nonconformist origins.
She attended Royal Holloway College for her bachelor's degree, and earned a PhD from London University in 1926 with a dissertation on Andrew Marvell. She then went to the USA and became a pioneering female British academic at American universities. She was a fellow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and an instructor at the college for women at Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, before becoming an instructor in British history at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, in 1929. She was a member of that department for 42 years, 12 of them as chairman. From 1960 until her retirement in 1971, she was Marjorie Walker Goodhart Professor. In 1932, she married (Stephen) Joseph Herben, a Bryn Mawr professor of English, but always used her maiden name. She was an influential teacher known for exacting standards. Her interest in early English republican thought led to her most significant work, The Eighteenth Century Commonwealthman (1959), a rich resource of previously neglected original materials. Cambridge University Press later commissioned her study, Two English Republican Tracts (1969). She received the Herbert Baxter Adams prize of the American Historical Association in 1960 and the American Historical Association award for scholarly distinction in 1989. She was elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and was commemorated in the annual Caroline Robbins lecture at the Institute of United States Studies at the University of London.

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Ms Robbins' work covers a neglected part of British history related to political thought from the restoration of Charles II to the eve of the American Revolution. Her argument is that these political thoughts found in tracts, books, & sermons had a great influence on the American colonials. Although the writers like Milton, Locke, & Sidney directed their views toward the idea of reforming existing government, their views had little impact on any sort of reformation involving Parliament. Their ideas written by those who had very little influence on British government were remarkably ahead of their time but in some cases wildly impractical. It was the American colonials like Franklin & Jefferson who took to heart those ideas & implemented them into the formation of a new government. There is an interesting chapter on Ireland as well as one on Scotland which should interest the reader.… (plus d'informations)
 
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walterhistory | Feb 22, 2022 |

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3
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2
Membres
72
Popularité
#243,043
Évaluation
½ 4.3
Critiques
1
ISBN
6

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