The Radicalism of the American Revolution
Nonfiction, History, Revolutionary, Americas, United States, Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Politics, History & Theory
| Author: | Gordon S. Wood | ISBN: | 9780307758965 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | Publication: | August 24, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Vintage | Language: | English |
| Author: | Gordon S. Wood |
| ISBN: | 9780307758965 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Publication: | August 24, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
