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Radicalism of the American Revolution
Title: Radicalism of the American Revolution
Category: History
Details: Words: 7729 | Pages: 32.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Radicalism of the American Revolution
“Radicalism of the American Revolution”
By Gordon S. Wood
Gordon Wood’s Radicalism of the American Revolution is a book that extensively covers the origin and ideas preceding the American Revolution. Wood’s account of the Revolution goes beyond the history and timeline of the war and offers a new encompassing look inside the social ideology and economic forces of the war. Wood explains in his book that America went through a two-stage progression to …showed first 75 words of 7729 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 7729 total…that the forces that Wood
proclaims as significant in his history of the Revolution are important. However, it is this same concentration on non-traditional forces that leads to my criticism of his book.
Smith pg.6
Wood should not have focused entirely on his commonly overlooked social and economic forces. Instead, he should have combined his insight along with the insight of other traditional forces to give his book a well-rounded theory behind the American Revolution.
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