The Radicalism of the American Revolution: Pulitzer Prize WinnerPULITZER PRIZE WINNER • 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. |
Contents
Hierarchy II | 11 |
Patricians and Plebeians | 24 |
Patriarchal Dependence | 43 |
Patronage | 57 |
Political Authority | 77 |
REPUBLICANISM | 93 |
A Truncated Society | 109 |
Loosening the Bands of Society | 124 |
Enlightenment | 189 |
Benevolence | 213 |
Equality | 229 |
Interests | 243 |
The Assault on Aristocracy | 271 |
Democratic Officeholding | 287 |
A World Within Themselves | 305 |
Notes | 371 |
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