The Radicalism Of The American Revolution
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Author |
: Gordon S. Wood |
Publisher |
: Knopf |
Total Pages |
: 472 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015058013197 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Radicalism of the American Revolution by : Gordon S. Wood
"Senior co-administrator of the Norcoast Salmon Research Facility, Dr. Mackenzie Connor - Mac to her friends and colleagues - was a biologist who had wanted nothing more out of life than to study the spawning habits of salmon. But that was before she met Brymn, the first member of the Dhryn race ever to set foot on Earth. And it was before Base was attacked, and Mac's friend and fellow scientist Dr. Emily Mamani was kidnapped by the mysterious race known as the Ro." "From that moment on everything changed for Mac, for Emily, for Brymn, for the human race, and for all the many member races of the Interspecies Union." "Now, with the alien Dhryn following an instinct-driven migratory path through the inhabited spaceways - bringing about the annihilation of sentient races who have the misfortune to lie along the star trail they are following - time is running out not only for the human race but for all life forms." "And only Mac and her disparate band of researchers - drawn from many of the races that are members of the Interspecies Union - stand any chance of solving the deadly puzzle of the Dhryn and the equally enigmatic Ro."--BOOK JACKET.
Author |
: Gordon S. Wood |
Publisher |
: Modern Library |
Total Pages |
: 204 |
Release |
: 2002-03-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781588361585 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1588361586 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis The American Revolution by : Gordon S. Wood
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An elegant synthesis done by the leading scholar in the field, which nicely integrates the work on the American Revolution over the last three decades but never loses contact with the older, classic questions that we have been arguing about for over two hundred years.”—Joseph J. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers A magnificent account of the revolution in arms and consciousness that gave birth to the American republic. When Abraham Lincoln sought to define the significance of the United States, he naturally looked back to the American Revolution. He knew that the Revolution not only had legally created the United States, but also had produced all of the great hopes and values of the American people. Our noblest ideals and aspirations-our commitments to freedom, constitutionalism, the well-being of ordinary people, and equality-came out of the Revolutionary era. Lincoln saw as well that the Revolution had convinced Americans that they were a special people with a special destiny to lead the world toward liberty. The Revolution, in short, gave birth to whatever sense of nationhood and national purpose Americans have had. No doubt the story is a dramatic one: Thirteen insignificant colonies three thousand miles from the centers of Western civilization fought off British rule to become, in fewer than three decades, a huge, sprawling, rambunctious republic of nearly four million citizens. But the history of the American Revolution, like the history of the nation as a whole, ought not to be viewed simply as a story of right and wrong from which moral lessons are to be drawn. It is a complicated and at times ironic story that needs to be explained and understood, not blindly celebrated or condemned. How did this great revolution come about? What was its character? What were its consequences? These are the questions this short history seeks to answer. That it succeeds in such a profound and enthralling way is a tribute to Gordon Wood’s mastery of his subject, and of the historian’s craft.
Author |
: Gordon S. Wood |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 241 |
Release |
: 2021 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780197546918 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0197546919 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Power and Liberty by : Gordon S. Wood
Written by one of early America's most eminent historians, this book masterfully discusses the debates over constitutionalism that took place in the Revolutionary era.
Author |
: Gordon S. Wood |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 344 |
Release |
: 2006-05-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101201664 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1101201665 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Revolutionary Characters by : Gordon S. Wood
In this brilliantly illuminating group portrait of the men who came to be known as the Founding Fathers, the incomparable Gordon Wood has written a book that seriously asks, "What made these men great?" and shows us, among many other things, just how much character did in fact matter. The life of each—Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, Hamilton, Madison, Paine—is presented individually as well as collectively, but the thread that binds these portraits together is the idea of character as a lived reality. They were members of the first generation in history that was self-consciously self-made men who understood that the arc of lives, as of nations, is one of moral progress.
Author |
: Gordon S. Wood |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 408 |
Release |
: 2011-05-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101515143 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1101515147 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Idea of America by : Gordon S. Wood
The preeminent historian of the American Revolution explains why it remains the most significant event in our history. More than almost any other nation in the world, the United States began as an idea. For this reason, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood believes that the American Revolution is the most important event in our history, bar none. Since American identity is so fluid and not based on any universally shared heritage, we have had to continually return to our nation's founding to understand who we are. In The Idea of America, Wood reflects on the birth of American nationhood and explains why the revolution remains so essential. In a series of elegant and illuminating essays, Wood explores the ideological origins of the revolution-from ancient Rome to the European Enlightenment-and the founders' attempts to forge an American democracy. As Wood reveals, while the founders hoped to create a virtuous republic of yeoman farmers and uninterested leaders, they instead gave birth to a sprawling, licentious, and materialistic popular democracy. Wood also traces the origins of American exceptionalism to this period, revealing how the revolutionary generation, despite living in a distant, sparsely populated country, believed itself to be the most enlightened people on earth. The revolution gave Americans their messianic sense of purpose-and perhaps our continued propensity to promote democracy around the world-because the founders believed their colonial rebellion had universal significance for oppressed peoples everywhere. Yet what may seem like audacity in retrospect reflected the fact that in the eighteenth century republicanism was a truly radical ideology-as radical as Marxism would be in the nineteenth-and one that indeed inspired revolutionaries the world over. Today there exists what Wood calls a terrifying gap between us and the founders, such that it requires almost an act of imagination to fully recapture their era. Because we now take our democracy for granted, it is nearly impossible for us to appreciate how deeply the founders feared their grand experiment in liberty could evolve into monarchy or dissolve into licentiousness. Gracefully written and filled with insight, The Idea of America helps us to recapture the fears and hopes of the revolutionary generation and its attempts to translate those ideals into a working democracy. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s smash Broadway musical Hamilton has sparked new interest in the Revolutionary War and the Founding Fathers. In addition to Alexander Hamilton, the production also features George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Aaron Burr, Lafayette, and many more. Look for Gordon's new book, Friends Divided.
Author |
: Gary B. Nash |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 544 |
Release |
: 2006-05-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781440627057 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1440627053 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Unknown American Revolution by : Gary B. Nash
In this audacious recasting of the American Revolution, distinguished historian Gary Nash offers a profound new way of thinking about the struggle to create this country, introducing readers to a coalition of patriots from all classes and races of American society. From millennialist preachers to enslaved Africans, disgruntled women to aggrieved Indians, the people so vividly portrayed in this book did not all agree or succeed, but during the exhilarating and messy years of this country's birth, they laid down ideas that have become part of our inheritance and ideals toward which we still strive today.
Author |
: Colin Bonwick |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 385 |
Release |
: 2017-10-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781469610443 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1469610442 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis English Radicals and the American Revolution by : Colin Bonwick
Bonwick brings together related elements that have been treated separately on previous occasions--English radicals as personalities, their relations with one another, their connections with Americans; the imperial controversy between England and the colonies; the movement for parliamentary reform in England; and the campaign for civil rights for Dissenters. The study brings fresh meaning to English radicalism and ideas about liberty during the revolutionary era. Originally published 1977. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Author |
: Alfred Fabian Young |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 385 |
Release |
: 1993 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0875801765 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780875801766 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beyond the American Revolution by : Alfred Fabian Young
Contributors include Alfred F. Young, Gary J. Kornblith, John M. Murrin, Allan Kulikoff, Edward Countryman, Peter H. Wood, W. J. Rorabaugh, Alan Taylor, Michael Merrill, Sean Wilentz, and Cathy N. Davidson.
Author |
: Gordon S. Wood |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 330 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 159420019X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781594200199 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (9X Downloads) |
Synopsis The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin by : Gordon S. Wood
Wood scrutinizes the less typically American traits possessed by Franklin--such as his longtime loyalty to the Crown--and why he still became one of the Revolution's necessary men.
Author |
: Justin du Rivage |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 392 |
Release |
: 2017-06-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300227659 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300227655 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Revolution Against Empire by : Justin du Rivage
A bold transatlantic history of American independence revealing that 1776 was about far more than taxation without representation Revolution Against Empire sets the story of American independence within a long and fierce clash over the political and economic future of the British Empire. Justin du Rivage traces this decades-long debate, which pitted neighbors and countrymen against one another, from the War of Austrian Succession to the end of the American Revolution. As people from Boston to Bengal grappled with the growing burdens of imperial rivalry and fantastically expensive warfare, some argued that austerity and new colonial revenue were urgently needed to rescue Britain from unsustainable taxes and debts. Others insisted that Britain ought to treat its colonies as relative equals and promote their prosperity. Drawing from archival research in the United States, Britain, and France, this book shows how disputes over taxation, public debt, and inequality sparked the American Revolution—and reshaped the British Empire.