The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 - Softcover

Wood, Gordon S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807847232 ISBN 13: 9780807847237

Publisher: Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press, 1998

Synopsis

One of the half dozen most important books ever written about the American Revolution.--New York Times Book Review

"During the nearly two decades since its publication, this book has set the pace, furnished benchmarks, and afforded targets for many subsequent studies. If ever a work of history merited the appellation 'modern classic,' this is surely one.--William and Mary Quarterly

"[A] brilliant and sweeping interpretation of political culture in the Revolutionary generation.--New England Quarterly

"This is an admirable, thoughtful, and penetrating study of one of the most important chapters in American history.--Wesley Frank Craven

About this title

Review

Gordon S. Wood--winner of the Pulitzer Prize and professor of American history at Brown University--had no idea what he was getting into when he began this 653-page book. Innocently, he wanted to write a "monographic analysis of constitution-making in the Revolutionary era." Little did he know he would discover an intellectual world where a complete transformation of political thought was occurring, one that would create "a distinctly American system of politics." As Wood explains, "Beneath the variety and idiosyncrasies of American opinion there emerged a general pattern of beliefs about the social process--a set of common assumptions about history, society, and politics that connected and made significant seemingly discrete and unrelated ideas. Really for the first time I began to glimpse what late eighteenth-century Americans meant when they talked about living in an enlightened age." This original study of the American political system is a strong contribution to the scholarly studies of the events surrounding the nation's independence.

Book Description

"One of the half dozen most important books ever written about the American Revolution."-- New York Times Book Review

Edition details

• Publisher: Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0807847232
• ISBN 13: 9780807847237
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 680