首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Early United States Reinterpreted by Bernard Bailyn Bernard Bailyn has recently reinterpreted the early history of the Unite
Early United States Reinterpreted by Bernard Bailyn Bernard Bailyn has recently reinterpreted the early history of the Unite
admin
2013-08-28
57
问题
Early United States Reinterpreted by Bernard Bailyn
Bernard Bailyn has recently reinterpreted the early history of the United States by applying new social research findings on the experiences of European migrants. In his reinterpretation, migration becomes the organizing principle for rewriting the history of preindustrial North America. His approach rests on four separate propositions.
The first of these asserts that residents of early modern England moved regularly about their countryside; migrating to the New World was simply a natural spillover. Although at first the colonies held little positive attraction for the English—they would rather have stayed home—by the eighteenth century people increasingly migrated to America because they regarded it as the land of opportunity. Secondly, Bailyn holds that, contrary to the notion that used to flourish in America history textbooks, there was never a typical New World community. For example, the economic and demographic character of early New England towns varied considerably.
Bailyn’s third proposition suggests two general patterns prevailing among the many thousands of migrants; one group came as indentured servants, another came to acquire land. Surprisingly, Bailyn suggests that those who recruited indentured servants were the driving forces of transatlantic migration. These colonial entrepreneurs helped determine the social character of people who came to preindustrial North America. At first, thousands of unskilled laborers were recruited; by the 1730’s, however, American employers demanded skilled artisans.
Finally, Bailyn argues that the colonies were a half-civilized hinterland of the European culture system. He is undoubtedly correct to insist that the colonies were part of an Anglo-American empire. But to divide the empire into English core and colonial periphery, as Bailyn does, devalues the achievements of colonial culture. It is true, as Bailyn claims, that high culture in the colonies never matched that in England. But what of seventeenth-century New England, where the settlers created effective laws, built a distinguished university, and published books? Bailyn might respond that New England was exceptional.
However, the ideas and institutions developed by New England Puritans had powerful effects on North American culture.
Although Bailyn goes on to apply his approach to some thousands of indentured servants who migrated just prior to the revolution, he fails to link their experience with the political development of the United States. Evidence presented in his work suggests how we might make such a connection. These indentured servants were treated as slaves for the period during which they had sold their time to American employers. It is not surprising that as soon as they served their time they passed up good wages in the cities and headed west to ensure their personal independence by acquiring land. Thus, it is in the west that a peculiarly American political culture began, among colonists who were suspicious of authority and intensely anti-aristocratic.
The author of the text would be most likely to agree with which of the following statements about Bailyn’s work?
选项
A、Bailyn underestimates the effects of Puritan thought on North American culture.
B、Bailyn overemphasizes the economic dependence of the colonies on Great Britain.
C、Bailyn’s description of the colonies as part of an Anglo-American empire is misleading and incorrect.
D、Bailyn failed to test his propositions on a specific group of migrants to colonial North America.
答案
A
解析
本题在原文中并没有明确表示,但根据原文的中心思想以及第四段的内容,可以推断出正确答案为A。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/8dLd777K
本试题收录于:
职称英语理工类A级题库职称英语分类
0
职称英语理工类A级
职称英语
相关试题推荐
Anxietyaboutfinancialmatterlessenedsomewhatwhen,in1910,theUnitedStatesacceptedresponsibilityforLiberia’ssurvival
ThecountrysaysthattheinvestmentofUS$14millionisbigenoughfordevelopingthatcountry’schipindustry.Althoughthe
AGoalsBHistoryofWomen’sRightsMovementCStartofWomen’sRightsMovementDTraditionalStatusofWomenERightsofW
AGoalsBHistoryofWomen’sRightsMovementCStartofWomen’sRightsMovementDTraditionalStatusofWomenERightsofW
AGoalsBHistoryofWomen’sRightsMovementCStartofWomen’sRightsMovementDTraditionalStatusofWomenERightsofW
Thespecial-effectsrevolutionbeganinthemid1980swithStarWars.MurenfeelsthatwithCGtechnology,specialeffectscan
Whatareresearchersinterestedindoingastheroadaccidentsworldwideincreasetoashockingrate?Accordingtothesecond
Weresolvedtheproblemaftergroupdiscussion.
Thecoastalareahasverymildwinter,butthecentralplainsremainextremelycold.
随机试题
高血压患者,男性65岁,上颌第一、二磨牙残根,无心脏病史,需拔牙。
背景资料某综合利用水利枢纽工程位于我国西北某省,枯水期流量很少;坝型为土石坝。黏土心墙防渗;坝址处河道较窄,岸坡平缓。工程中的某分部工程包括坝基开挖、坝基防渗及坝体填筑,该分部工程验收结论为“本分部工程划分为60个单元工程,其中合格18个
当平面布置改变超过图上面积的()时,不宜在原施工图上修改和补充,应重新绘制竣工。
保证合同的当事人为()。
根据《中华人民共和国外汇管理条例》,属于外汇的有()。
下列关于军队士官退役安置及待遇的说法,正确的是()。
一果农想将一块平整的正方形土地分割为四块小的正方形土地,并将果树均匀整齐的种植在土地的所有边界上,且在每块土地的四个角上都种上一棵果树,该果农未经细算就购买了60棵果树,如果仍按上述想法种植,那么他至少多买了多少棵果树?
核心能力
A、 B、 C、 D、 C
Whichofthefollowingistrue,accordingtotheconversation?
最新回复
(
0
)