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Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
Author Bernard Bailyn
CountryUS
Genrehistory
Publisher Knopf
Publication date
1986
Pages720
Awards Pulitzer Prize for History
ISBN 978-0394757780

Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution is a 1986 nonfiction book by American historian Bernard Bailyn, published by Knopf. The book chronicles the migration of British farmers into colonial America in the 1770s. [1] It won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for History, which marked the second time Bailyn won the award; the first was in 1968 for The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. [2]

References

  1. ^ David Levin (February 14, 1987). "Voyagers to the West: a passage in the peopling of America on the eve of the revolution". The Nation. Archived from the original on November 17, 2018. Retrieved December 8, 2012.
  2. ^ "Bailyn, Bernard 1922-". Contemporary Authors. January 1, 2005. Archived from the original on November 14, 2018. Retrieved December 8, 2012.