Its often said that we tell old stories to get new ones, a truth selfevident in my favorite of pauline maiers many works, the old revolutionaries. This acclaimed book by pauline maier is available at in several formats for your ereader. In telling their stories, pauline maier explores the american revolution not so much as a collective movement as a commitment to an ideal republicwhich different people interpreted differently. The declaration of independence and the constitution of. Political lives in the age of samuel adams, appearing in 1980, looked in depth at the lives of five revolutionary leaders, including adams, in the years leading up to 1776. Professor of american history at the massachusetts institute of technology mit.
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Pauline maier has written a new introduction to the norton paperback edition, in which she discusses the old revolutionaries pertinence to current. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the. She received her ba from radcliffe college in 1960, was a fulbright scholar at the london school of economics in 196061, and took her phd at harvard university in 1968. Professor of american history at the massachusetts institute of technology mit and a distinguished historian of the american revolution, died at the age of 75 on august 12, 20, in a hospice in cambridge, massachusetts. She received her phd from harvard university in 1968. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. April 27, 1938 august 12, 20 was a revisionist historian of the american revolution, though her work also addressed the late colonial period and the history of the united states after the end of the revolutionary war. The old revolutionaries were samuel adams, isaac sears, th. Pauline maier shows us the declaration as both the defining statement of our national identity and the moral standard by which we live as a nation. At radcliffe college, she wrote for the harvard crimson, where she met her future husband, charles s. The old revolutionaries isbn 9780394510965 pdf epub pauline. The old revolutionaries more editions of the old revolutionaries.
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She is the author of several books and textbooks on american history, including from resistance to revolution. Pauline maier books list of books by author pauline maier. Aug 15, 20 pauline maier, a historian at mit and author of many books about colonial history of the united states, the revolutionary period and the constitution. Political lives in the age of samuel adams by pauline maier a readable copy. Pauline maier, a distinguished historian of the united states formative. It caused something of a stir when maier discovered many if not most of the leaders of the people in the street for the sons of liberty could read and write. In telling their stories, pauline maier explores the american revolution not so much as a collective movement as a commitment to an ideal republic. The old revolutionaries ebook written by pauline maier.
And everything i admire about her as a scholar rolls in with the first lines of that barefaced preface. Pages can include considerable notesin pen or highlighterbut the notes cannot obscure the text. The old revolutionaries were samuel adams, isaac sears, thomas young, richard henry lee and charels carroll, five men. Aug 14, 20 pauline maier pronounced mayer, who taught at the massachusetts institute of technology for three decades, produced a diverse body of work, including textbooks, a history of technologys. Feb 15, 2012 pauline maier shows us the declaration as both the defining statement of our national identity and the moral standard by which we live as a nation.
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Making the declaration of independence ebook written by pauline maier. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the old revolutionaries. Political lives in the age of samuel adams, published in 1980, maier examined the meaning of revolutionary from the personal perspective of key individuals. It is truly american scripture, and maier tells us how it came to be from the declarations birth in the hard and tortuous struggle by which americans arrived at independence to the ways in which, in the nineteenth century, the document itself. Nov 01, 20 pauline maier retained the scholarly trajectory on which she embarked as the first female graduate student of bernard bailyn. The old revolutionaries by pauline maier 19800912 on. About the author 1980 pauline maier received her ph. In telling the stories of these men, pauline maier shows how the american revolution was less a collective. The declaration of independence and the constitution of the. From her initial published articles to her last book, she based her work firmly in primarysource materials, with much of the research being conducted in harvards widener library. Pauline maier history faculty, massachusetts institute.
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