The Radicalism of the American Revolution: Pulitzer Prize Winner Contributor(s): Wood, Gordon S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679736883 ISBN-13: 9780679736882 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1993 Annotation: 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. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) - History | Revolutionary |
Dewey: 973.31 |
LCCN: 92056347 |
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.15" W x 8.37" (0.76 lbs) 464 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century |
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Publisher Description: 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. |