the american revolution by gordon s wood

It will also recognize the possibility of the presence of other traditions that have not been allowed much prominence in the historical debates about America’s intellectual origins and development. Can we say that America was born into and grew out of any predominant political-cultural intellectual tradition or family of ideas? Or was the origin of America the result of a constructive synthesis or perhaps a tumultuous fulmination of two or even more intellectual and emotional forces being manifested in a boisterous new world? This document will attempt to trace, through various major historians, two of the most recognized intellectual traditions of American political-cultural thought. Wood, Gordon S.The American Revolution: A History. Rochester, New York: Simon Publications, 2002. The Loyalists in the American Revolution. Wood The American Revolution: A History Paperback 1 January 1900 by Gordon S Wood (Author) 378 ratings Book 9 of 33: Modern Library Chronicles Series Edition: Reprint See all formats and editions Hardcover 47.65 1 Used from 54.95 1 New from 47.65 Paperback from 12.25 1 Used from 12.25 9 New from 18. Wood, Historian of the American Revolution By David Hackett Fischer JGordon S. He served abroad with the United States Air Force and completed a master’s degree at Harvard. A People’s History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence. Wood was born in Concord, near the scene of the American Revolution’s first battle. Is the moral essence of America “public virtue” or “liberal competitive opportunism”? Or is America attempting to square the circle? Is America striving to maintain a politics and culture of freedom through which it can achieve shared public benefits through strenuous individual and group competition? One way to try to answer these questions is to examine the political and cultural ideas which were fulminating during the pre- and post-Revolutionary history of America. Gordon Wood is one of the most prominent and prolific American historians of the modern era. 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.

The american revolution by gordon s wood