Oscar Handlin (1915–2011)
Autore di The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations That Made the American People
Sull'Autore
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 mostra altro 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) mostra meno
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Opere di Oscar Handlin
Commonwealth: A Study of the Role of Government in the American Economy: Massachusetts, 1774-1861 (1987) 18 copie
Liberty in Expansion, 1760-1850 (Handlin, Oscar//Liberty in America, 1600 to the Present) (1989) 13 copie
The popular sources of political authority; documents on the Massachusetts constitution of 1780 (1966) 7 copie
Liberty and Equality 1920-1994 (Handlin, Oscar//Liberty in America, 1600 to the Present) (1871) 6 copie
Liberty in Peril, 1850-1920 (Handlin, Oscar//Liberty in America, 1600 to the Present) (1992) 6 copie
The American College and American Culture: Socialization As a Function of Higher Education, (1970) 6 copie
Lincoln and the Union 3 copie
Introduction 1 copia
New Worlds, New Visions 1 copia
America a story 1 copia
Opere correlate
From Puritan to Yankee: Character and the Social Order in Connecticut, 1690-1765 (1967) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni — 174 copie
Slave and Citizen: The Life of Frederick Douglas (Library of American Biography Series) (1980) — A cura di — 62 copie
Aliens and Dissenters: Federal Suppression of Radicals, 1903-1933 (1963) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni — 60 copie
The Forty-Eighters: Political Refugees of the German Revolution of 1848 (1967) — Collaboratore — 9 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Handlin, Oscar
- Data di nascita
- 1915-09-29
- Data di morte
- 2011-09-20
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Istruzione
- Harvard University (PhD|History)
Brooklyn College - Attività lavorative
- historian
- Relazioni
- Handlin, Mary Flug (wife, deceased)
Handlin, Lilian (wife) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Union League History Prize
Pulitzer Prize (History, 1952)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 62
- Opere correlate
- 8
- Utenti
- 1,449
- Popolarità
- #17,737
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 10
- ISBN
- 68
- Lingue
- 2