Word: handlinism
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...Oscar and Lilian Handlin...
...OSCAR HANDLIN wrote this book in an effort to get tenure at Harvard University would...
Certainly, in his bold attack on both a time period and a broad subject, Handlin, Loeb University Professor Emeritus, and his wife Lilian Handlin should win kudos. Few historians, even as well respected as Handlin, would be gutsy enough to tackle such an imposing task...
...this brief but dense book, Handlin and his wife tackle issues of power, space, family relations, conceptions of rights and religion in pre-revolutionary America, and throughout, a thousand little anecdotes from every colony and every time illustrate their points...
...Handlin follows a time-honored Harvard path--illuminate the broadest themes of American history by covering everything. At its best, this tradition has produced Adams University Professor Bernard Bailyn's Ideological Origins of the American Revolution and Gordon Wood's The Creation of the American Republic. Those books covered an immense era with breathtaking skill. Few books on American history offer such a bravado assault on the origins of American society and do so with such consummate insight and originality...