Viola Florence Barnes, 1885-1979: A Historian's Biography

by John G. Reid

Viola Florence Barnes was one of the most prominent women historians in the United States from the 1920s to the 1950s. Born in 1885, Barnes was educated at Yale University and began teaching at Mount Holyoke College in 1919. She was an instrumental member of the 'imperial school' of historians, who interpreted North American colonial history within a British imperial framework. Specializing in New England and Canada's Maritime provinces, her best-known...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802080170
• ISBN13: 9780802080172
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 240 Pages