Gordon S. Wood: The American Revolution, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The American Revolution
- A History
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- Verlag:
- Random House, 08/2003
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780812970418
- Artikelnummer:
- 6073837
- Umfang:
- 226 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 181 g
- Maße:
- 201 x 130 mm
- Stärke:
- 13 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 19.8.2003
- Serie:
- Random House Publishing Group
- Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
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.
Biografie
Gordon S. Wood (born November 27, 1933) is Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown University and the recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History . He also won a 1970 Bancroft Prize.§Gordon Wood was born in Concord, Massachusetts and grew up in Worcester and Waltham. He graduated summa cum laude from Tufts University in 1955 and has since served as a trustee there. After serving in the U.S. Air Force in Japan (during which time he earned an A.M. at Harvard University), he entered the Ph.D. program in history at Harvard, where he studied under Bernard Bailyn. Receiving his Ph.D. in 1964, he taught briefly at Harvard, the College of William and Mary, and the University of Michigan, before joining the faculty at Brown in 1969. He was also Pitt Professor at Cambridge University in 1982-83 and has lectured for One Day University. In addition to his books, he has written a number of influential articles.
