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Radicalism of the American Revolution

by Gordon S Wood
Radicalism of the American Revolution

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Grand in scope, rigorous in its arguments, and elegantly synthesizing thirty years of scholarship, this splendid book is likely to become the definitive work on the social, political, and economic consequences of 1776.

In The Radicalism of the American Revolution, Gordon S. Wood depicts not just a break with England, but the rejection of an entire way of life: of a society of feudal dependencies, a politics of patronage, and a world view in which people were divided between the nobility and "the Herd." He shows how the theories of the country's founders became realities that sometimes baffled and disappointed them. Above all, the Bancroft Prize-winning historian rescues the revolution from abstraction, allowing readers to see it with a true sense of its drama — and not a little awe.

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"Exciting, compelling, and sure to provoke controversy, the book will be discussed for years to come." Library Journal

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"A tour de force....This is a book that could redirect historical thinking about the revolution and its place in the national consciousness." New York Review of Books

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"A breathtaking social, political, and ideological analysis. This book will set the agenda for discussion for some time to come." Richard L. Bushman, Columbia University

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In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian describes the events that made the American Revolution. Gordon S. Wood depicts a revolution that was about much more than a break from England, rather it transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities sometimes baffled and disappointed its founding fathers.

Table of Contents

I. Monarchy

1. Hierarchy

2. Patricians and Plebeians

3. Patriarchal Dependence

4. Patronage

5. Political Authority

II. Republicanism

6. The Republicanization of Monarchy

7. A Truncated Society

8. Loosening the Bands of Society

9. Enlightened Paternalism

10. Revolution

11. Enlightenment

12. Benevolence

III. Democracy

13. Equality

14. Interests

15. The Assault on Aristocracy

16. Democratic Officeholding

17. A World Within Themselves

18. The Celebration of Commerce

19. Middle-Class Order


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ISBN:
9780679736882
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
03/02/1993
Publisher:
PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE
Pages:
464
Height:
1.00IN
Width:
5.15IN
Thickness:
1.00
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
1991
Series Volume:
A
UPC Code:
2800679736884
Author:
gordon S. Wood
Author:
Gordon Wood
Author:
Gordon S Wood
Author:
Gordon S. Wood
Subject:
United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
Subject:
US History-Revolution and Constitution Era
Subject:
History
Subject:
United States Politics and government.
Subject:
Political culture -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Subject:
Radicalism
Subject:
Political culture
Subject:
United states
Subject:
Political culture -- United States -- History.
Subject:
Government and political science

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