The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution.

BAILYN, Bernard.

$800.00

Item Number: 148349

Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967.

First edition of this classic historical work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. A very sharp example.

Bernard Bailyn was a preeminent American historian whose scholarship fundamentally reshaped the study of early American history, particularly the American Revolution and the colonial period. A longtime professor at Harvard University, Bailyn is best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning work The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), in which he argued that revolutionary leaders were driven by a coherent ideological commitment to liberty, shaped by Enlightenment and republican thought. His approach emphasized the role of ideas and political discourse over purely economic or class-based interpretations of the Revolution. Bailyn’s influence extended beyond his own writing; as a mentor and editor, he helped shape a generation of historians, promoting an interdisciplinary and source-driven methodology.