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Earl Aaron Reitain (May 3, 1925 – October 15, 2015) was an American historian.
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He was born in Grove City, Minnesota and served in
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as a
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rifleman. He was awarded both the
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and the Bronze Star Medal for his service. Reitan attended Concordia College after the war and was awarded a doctorate in 1954 from the
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. Between 1970 and 1973 he was chairman of
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's department of history. Reitan's first article on the civil list of Georgian Britain was called "seminal" by W. A. Speck, who also called his ''Politics, Finance and the People'' the "definitive account of the campaign for economical reform".W. A. Speck, 'Reviewed Work: Politics, Finance and the People: Economical Reform in England in the Age of the American Revolution, 1770–92 by Earl A. Reitan', ''History'', Vol. 93, No. 2 (310) (April 2008), pp. 277-278.


Works

*'The Civil List in Eighteenth-Century British Politics: Parliamentary Supremacy versus the Independence of the Crown', ''The Historical Journal'', Vol. 9, No. 3 (1966), pp. 318–337. *'The "Knowledge Explosion" and the Academic Man', ''The Journal of General Education'', Vol. 18, No. 2 (July 1966), pp. 73–80. *'Revenue to Civil List, 1689-1702: The Revolution Settlement and the 'Mixed and Balanced' Constitution', ''The Historical Journal'', Vol. 13, No. 4 (Dec., 1970), pp. 571–588. *'The Man with the Multiple-Choice Mind', ''Academe'', Vol. 65, No. 3 (Apr., 1979), pp. 197–201. *'Expanding Horizons: Maps in the "Gentleman's Magazine," 1731-1754', ''Imago Mundi'', Vol. 37 (1985), pp. 54–62. *''Politics, War and Empire: Rise of Britain to a World Power, 1688-1792'' (1994). *''Tory Radicalism: Margaret Thatcher, John Major, and the Transformation of Modern Britain, 1979-1997'' (1997). *''Rifleman: On the Cutting Edge of World War II'' (2001). *''Crossing the Bridge: Growing up Norwegian-American in Depression and War 1925-1946'' (2002). *''The Thatcher Revolution: Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony Blair, and the Transformation of Modern Britain'' (2002). *''Liberalism: Time-Tested Principles for the Twenty-First Century'' (2003). *''I Was a Teenage Rifleman in World War II'' (2004). *''Politics, Finance, and the People: Economical Reform in England in the Age of the American Revolution, 1770-1792'' (2007).


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Reitan, Earl Aaron 1925 births 2015 deaths American historians University of Illinois alumni People from Minnesota Illinois State University faculty Historians from Minnesota