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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.Table of Contents
I. Monarchy1. 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
Gordon S. Wood
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"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
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WINNER 1993 Pulitzer PrizeWINNER 1992 Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
- The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood
- March 02, 1993
- History - United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800); History
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