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Perry Miller

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Also known as P. G.E. Miller, Perry Gilbert Eddy Miller

American historian (1905–1963)

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Born
1905
Died
1963,
Works
73

Top works

  • American thought
  • Roger Williams
  • The New England Mind The Seventeenth Century
  • The Puritans Revised
  • The Transcendentalists

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Quotes

  • American capitalism of 1830 to 1860 was a riot of extravagance. Hundreds of those who glistened in New York and Boston in the 1840's are forgotten. A few families—, —managed to maintain continuity, but they were few. The number who went down to ruin invited a chronicler equal to Dickens.
  • Later practitioners improved upon Mitchell and Stoughton only by extending the list of sins, by going into greater detail. Year by year the stock enumeration grew, and once a new sin was added to the series it kept its place in subsequent editions.
  • By the middle of the twentieth century, the world had accepted Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, published in 1851, as an indubitable masterpiece of the nineteenth, even though that world became aware of it only a generation ago.
  • deserves credit for his courageous advocacy of the of Ohio, probably more than for his contributions to literature: his trade monthly, published from 1854 t0 1861, Cozzens' Wine Press, is a neglected classic which provides a charming insight into the amenities of the table in a society which devoted considerable care to that department.

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Wikidata facts

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human
Family name
Miller
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Chicago
Place of death
Cambridge
Doctoral student
Bernard Bailyn
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date of birth
1905-02-25
date of death
1963-12-09
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