The American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood

Author:Gordon S. Wood
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History
ISBN: 9781588361585
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2002-03-04T16:00:00+00:00

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Republicanism

Amilitary victory over Great Britain may have been essential for the success of the Revolution, but for Americans it was scarcely the whole of the Revolution. Although the Revolution had begun as a political crisis within the empire, by 1776 it was no longer merely a colonial rebellion. From 1775, when independence and hence the formation of new governments became imminent, and continuing throughout the war, nearly every piece of writing about the future was filled with extraordinarily visionary hopes for the transformation of America. But not just America’s government and society would be transformed; its role in the world would be changed as well. Americans had come to believe that the Revolution promised nothing less than a massive reordering of their lives—a reordering summed up in the conception of republicanism.

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