Rowland Berthoff

Rowland Berthoff

Rowland Tappan Berthoff (September 201921-March 252001) was an American historian, working in the fields of immigration and social life in the USA. He is best known for his 1971 book "An Unsettled People: Order and Disorder in American Life".

He was born in Toledo, Ohio, attended Oberlin College, did graduate work at Harvard University and was awarded a doctorate by Princeton University in 1952, as a student of Oscar Handlin. He was Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, from 1962.

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* [http://www.historians.org/perspectives/issues/2002/0201/0201mem1.cfm Obituary]


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