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Name
  
Violet Barbour

Education
  
Cornell University (1914)

Role
  
Historian

Died
  
August 31, 1968, Poughkeepsie, New York, United States

Books
  
Capitalism in Amsterdam in the Seventeenth Century

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada

Violet Barbour (July 5, 1884 Cincinnati, Ohio - August 31, 1968) was an American historian.

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She graduated from Cornell University with a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. Beginning in 1914, she taught at Vassar College as a professor of English and European history.

Awards

  • 1925 Guggenheim Fellowship
  • 1913 Herbert Baxter Prize by the American Historical Association

    • Works

  • Privateers and pirates of the West Indies, Cornell University, 1909
  • Capitalism in Amsterdam in the Seventeenth Century, University of Michigan Press, 1950
  • Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington, Secretary of State to Charles II, American Historical Association, 1915

    • References

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