Voyagers to the West

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Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution

Author: Bernard Bailyn
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Publisher: Vintage
“These two volumes [The Peopling Of British North America: An Introduction and Voyagers To The West] bring to a triumphant culmination not only a distinguished career but some of the best work of an entire generation of American historians …. He wants to come closer than any predecessor to a comprehensive account of immigration to British North America—the origins, the motives, the experience—and these volumes persuade me that he has succeeded….Bailyn has inaugurated one of the most important historical works of the last thirty years.” — David Levin, The Nation
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“A grandly conceived attempt to employ the newest techniques of historical research (notably computerized demographic analysis) to achieve an old purpose: the recovery of a people’s mentality from beneath the layers of myth and received opinion that have obscured it….[Voyagers To The West] is conceived on an epic scale and executed with heroic determination.” — Andrew Delbanco, New Republic

“Voyagers To The West is a superb book…. Bailyn joins the imagination and organizing skills of a master scholar to powerful stylistic gifts….It should be equally admired by and equally as attractive to the general reader as to the professional historian.” — R. C. Simmons, Journal of American Studies

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