The Radicalism of the American Revolution: Pulitzer Prize WinnerKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1991 - 464 pages 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. |
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... century English- men still considered gentlemen to be part of the aristocracy.3 When the gentry are included in the eighteenth - century English ar- istocracy , the numbers were in proportion to the population not all that different ...
... century English- men still considered gentlemen to be part of the aristocracy.3 When the gentry are included in the eighteenth - century English ar- istocracy , the numbers were in proportion to the population not all that different ...
Page 95
... century mo- narchical society of paternal and dependent relationships prepared the way for the emergence of the liberal , democratic , capitalistic world of the early nineteenth century . This reordering of the society of the ancien ...
... century mo- narchical society of paternal and dependent relationships prepared the way for the emergence of the liberal , democratic , capitalistic world of the early nineteenth century . This reordering of the society of the ancien ...
Page 100
... century was latently and at times manifestly republican . All the ancient republics - Athens , Sparta , Thebes - were familiar to educated people in the eighteenth century ( their names had " grown trite by repetition , " said one ...
... century was latently and at times manifestly republican . All the ancient republics - Athens , Sparta , Thebes - were familiar to educated people in the eighteenth century ( their names had " grown trite by repetition , " said one ...
Contents
Hierarchy | 11 |
Patricians and Plebeians | 24 |
Patriarchal Dependence | 43 |
Copyright | |
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