Alan Dawley (December 18, 1943 – March 12, 2008) was a professor of history at

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. Dawley was a 1965 graduate of Oberlin College, and completed his M.A. (1966) and Ph.D. (1971) at

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. He then joined the faculty of The College of New Jersey. He received the

Bancroft Prize The Bancroft Prize is awarded each year by the trustees of Columbia University for books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas. It was established in 1948, with a bequest from Frederic Bancroft, in his memory and that of his brother, ...

in 1977 for his book ''Class and Community''. He wrote mainly on the US

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. He died in Mexico on March 12, 2008, of a heart attack.

Selected bibliography

''Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn''
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, 1976) Winner of the Bancroft Prize. *''Working for Democracy: American Workers from the Revolution to the Present''. (co-editor with Paul Buhle) (University of Illinois Press, 1985)
''Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State''
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, 1991) *''Changing the World: American Progressives in War and Revolution, 1914-1924''. (Princeton University Press, 2003)

References

External links

Dawley's Home Page
where you can find a complete (as of 2003) bibliography.

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