The Radicalism of the American Revolution - Softcover

Wood, Gordon S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679736883 ISBN 13: 9780679736882

Publisher: Vintage, 1993

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Publisher:

"The most important study of the American Revolution to appear in over twenty years...a landmark book." --The New York Times Book Review

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

From the Inside Flap:

In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian depicts much more than a break with England. He gives readers a revolution that transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities sometimes baffled and disappointed its founding fathers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0679736883
• ISBN 13: 9780679736882
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464