It also pays much more attention to the people who were on these shores first. Now he considers the British, Dutch, Swedish and Finnish migrants over the first seven decades of the 17th century. "The Barbarous Years" serves as something of a prequel to "Voyagers to the West," which studied in detail roughly 10,000 British migrants to America in the mid-1770s. He has a pile of laurels on which he could justifiably rest, including two Pulitzer Prizes, for "The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution" (1967) and "Voyagers to the West" (1986). Bailyn has produced 10 books, almost all on early American history, while editing or collaborating on many more. Since the 1950s, from his perch at Harvard, Mr. Bernard Bailyn has written another big book.
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