David Hackett Fischer

David Hackett Fischer (born December 2, 1935 ) is an American historian . He is a professor at Brandeis University .

Life

Fischer graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor's degree and a PhD from Johns Hopkins University . He wrote books on legendary events of the American War of Independence ( Paul Revere's ride , George Washington's crossing of the Delaware and his warfare in general in the winter of 1776/77), the Federalists , methodological problems of historical science, and economic and cultural history. In his book Albion's Seed he traces the British roots of American culture, whereby he saw four waves of immigration as decisive for the formation of American national culture: the immigration of the Puritan Pilgrim Fathers (with a particular influence on corporate culture and education in the northeastern United States), the Immigration from southern England to Virginia ( Indentur and royalists in the English Civil War, with influence on the plantation culture of the southern states), that of Quakers from the northern Midlands to Delaware (industrial culture of the Midwest and Central Atlantic states ) and from northern England, Scots and Irish to the American border areas and pioneer states (with influence particularly in the southern states and ranchers).

Fischer has been an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1995 . For Washington's crossing he received the Pulitzer Prize for History. In 2006 he received the Irving Kristol Award from the American Enterprise Institute . For 2015 he was awarded the Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing .

Fonts

• The Revolution of American Conservatism. The Federalist Party in the Era of Jeffersonian Democracy. Harper and Row, New York NY 1965.
• Historians' fallacies. Toward a Logic of Historical Thought. Harper and Row, New York NY et al. 1970.
• Growing old in America. Oxford University Press, New York NY 1978, ISBN 0-19-502159-2 .
• as editor: Concord. The Social History of a New England Town, 1750-1850. Brandeis University, Waltham MA 1983.
• Albion's Seed. Four British folkways in America (= America, a cultural History. 1). Oxford University Press, New York NY et al. 1989, ISBN 0-19-503794-4 .
• with James C. Kelly: Away, I'm bound away. Virginia and the Westward Movement. Virginia Historical Society, Richmond VI 1993, ISBN 0-945015-07-0 (Later as: Bound away. Virginia and the Westward Movement. University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville VI 2000, ISBN 0-8139-1773-5 ).
• Paul Revere's Ride. Oxford University Press, New York NY et al. 1994, ISBN 0-19-508847-6 .
• The great wave. Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History. Oxford University Press, New York NY et al. 1996, ISBN 0-19-505377-X .
• Washington's crossing. Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 2004, ISBN 0-19-517034-2 .
• Champlain's Dream. Simon and Schuster, New York NY 2008, ISBN 978-1-4165-9332-4 .
• Liberty and Freedom. (A visual History of America's founding ideas) (= America, a cultural History. 3). Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 2005, ISBN 0-19-516253-6 .
• Fairness and Freedom. A History of Two Open Societies, New Zealand and the United States. Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 2012, ISBN 978-0-19-983270-5 .

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