Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
Voyagers to the West won the Pulitzer Prize and the Saloutos Prize of the Immigration History Society. Bailyn's book uses an emigration roster that lists every person officially known to have left Britain for America from December 1773 to March 1776 to reconstruct the lives and motives of those who emigrated to the New World.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Vintage
- Year
- 2011
- ISBN-13
- 9780307798527
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- Colonial American immigrationBritish emigrationAmerican Revolution era society
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for HistoryWonMajor(1987)
- National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1986)
Other awarded books from Bernard Bailyn
- The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
- The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson
- The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675
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