Establishing a proper method of representation was a goal and measure of the American Revolution, or as Thomas Jefferson said in 1776, "the whole object of the present controversy." A fine example of political and constitutional history, this timeless little book will serve as an excellent introduction to issues of representation for students in the fields of political science, as well as history and law. The subject is one that lies at the heart of any discussion of democracy. The preeminent historian of the Founding Era reflects on the birth of American nationhood and explains why the American. Written immediately after the completion of Wood’s Bancroft Award-winning The Creation of the American Republic, this book elaborates on issues also explored in that landmark work. Originally published in 1969, now revised and with a new preface, Representation in the American Revolution examines the ways in which a government is created and how, in the face of great difficulties as well as great possibilities, its citizens are represented. Wood, comes an early work whose relevance is undiminished. The Revolution, Wood writes, 'was as radical and as.
From one of America’s most celebrated historians, the Pulitzer Prize winner Gordon S. The definitive version of this interpretation comes from The Radicalism of the American Revolution, a 1991 book by Brown historian Gordon Wood.
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