The American Revolution: A History (Modern Library Chronicles) - Hardcover

Wood, Gordon S.

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ISBN 10: 0679640576 ISBN 13: 9780679640578

Verlag: Modern Library, 2002

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The distinguished, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian presents a concise history of the American Revolution and the birth of the American republic, from the earliest hints of revolt and unrest through the ratification of the Constitution. 50,000 first printing.

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Gordon S. Wood received his B.A. from Tufts University and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Since 1969 he has been at Brown University, where he is a professor of history. In 1970 his book <i>The Creation of the American Republic 1776―1787 </i>was nominated for the National Book Award and received the Bancroft and John H. Dunning prizes. In 1993 he won the Pulitzer Prize for <i>The Radicalism of the American Revolution</i>. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

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“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.”<br>-Joseph J. Ellis, author of <b>Founding Brothers</b><br><br>A magnificent account of the revolution in arms and consciousness that gave birth to the American republic.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.

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• Verlag: Modern Library
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0679640576
• ISBN 13: 9780679640578
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 190
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar