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Thomas Doerflinger

{{Short description|American historian (1952–2015)}}

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|name=Thomas Doerflinger

|birth_name=Thomas M. Doerflinger

|birth_date={{birth year|1952}}

|death_date={{death year and age|2015|1952}}

|nationality=American

|alma_mater=Princeton University

|occupation=Historian

|awards=Bancroft Prize (1987)

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Thomas M. Doerflinger (1952–2015) was an American historian.

Life

He is the son of William Main Doerflinger.{{cite web |url=http://pages.prodigy.net/folkmusic/wmdoerflinger.htm |title=William Main Doerflinger |website=pages.prodigy.net |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021010024738/http://pages.prodigy.net/folkmusic/wmdoerflinger.htm |archive-date=2002-10-10}}

He was a MCEAS Dissertation Fellow, at Harvard University in 1978-1979.{{cite web|url=http://www.mceas.org/pastfellows.htm|title=MCEAS Fellows|work=mceas.org}}

He trained as a historian at Princeton and Harvard.

He died on August 23, 2015.{{cite web |url=https://oieahc.wm.edu/ucs/memorium_doerflinger.html |title=OIEAHC - Uncommon Sense |website=oieahc.wm.edu |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160208222245/https://oieahc.wm.edu/ucs/memorium_doerflinger.html |archive-date=2016-02-08}}

Awards

  • 1987 Bancroft Prize
  • 1980 Bowdoin Prize for Graduate Essays {{cite news| url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1980/2/6/news-shorts-pjennifer-r-goodman-of/ | title=Bowdoin Prizes| author= Stephen R. Latham| date= February 6, 1980| work=The Harvard Crimson}}

Works

  • [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1463 "How to Succeed in Business: An Exchange", The New York Review of Books, July 11, 1996]
  • [http://www.historycooperative.org/cgi-bin/justtop.cgi?act=justtop&url=http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/wm/59.1/doerflinger.html "Rural Capitalism in Iron Country: Staffing a Forest Factory, 1808–1815", William & Mary Quarterly, January 2002]
  • [https://www.jstor.org/pss/202663 "The Antilles Trade of the Old Regime: A Statistical Overview", Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Winter 1976]
  • {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=saSwaqaau7oC&q=Thomas%20Doerflinger%20historian&pg=PP1| title= A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise: Merchants and Economic Development in Revolutionary Philadelphia| publisher=UNC Press| year= 1986| isbn= 978-0-8078-4946-0 }}
  • {{cite book| title= Risk and reward: venture capital and the making of America's great industries|author=Thomas M. Doerflinger |author2=Jack L. Rivkin | publisher= Random House| year= 1987| isbn= 978-0-394-54929-3| url-access= registration| url= https://archive.org/details/riskrewardventur00doer}}
  • {{cite book| title=Enterprise on the Delaware| publisher=Harvard University| year= 1980 }}

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Category:21st-century American historians

Category:American male non-fiction writers

Category:Historians of the American Revolution

Category:1952 births

Category:Princeton University alumni

Category:Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni

Category:2015 deaths

Category:Bancroft Prize winners

Category:21st-century American male writers

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