Gordon S. Wood

The Radicalism of the American Revolution

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Gordon S. Wood depicts an American Revolution that was much more than a break from England. The revolution rejected an entire way of life: a society of feudal dependencies, a politics of patronage, and a world view which divided people between the nobility and “the Herd.” The realities emerging from the revolution sometimes baffled and disappointed its founding fathers.
An immensely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis by the preeminent historian of the American Revolution.

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Gordon S. Wood depicts an American Revolution that was much more than a break from England. The revolution rejected an entire way of life: a society of feudal dependencies, a politics of patronage, and a world view which divided people between the nobility and “the Herd.” The realities emerging from the revolution sometimes baffled and disappointed its founding fathers. An immensely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis by the preeminent historian of the American Revolution.
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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