Gordon Wood American Revolution Summary
In Gordon Wood’s analysis of the American Revolution, he takes a more radical view of the period in contrast with the view of other historians, who see this period as more conservative with no major social disruption, especially compared to the radical and brutal rebellions of the French Revolution just decades later. In the early days of colonization, those who settled in America had no wish to create their own identity that wasn’t British, but with time and lack of interest from the crown and Parliament, which allowed for decades of true freedom to create their own economies and identity independent from their original interests changed things. Prior to the American Revolution, what most colonists who were calling for freedom and change
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In the years and decades following the Revolution, there were a myriad of changes that occurred that would form the society and government, all of which were not at all surprising or unexpected. The disagreements between states and statesmen about the new nation, such as: the strength and formation the new nation would take – particularly between Federalist and Anti-Federalists; the issue of slavery, which surprisingly was not discussed as much as I expected given the subject matter and the time period presented, and the manner of representation in the brand new nation. In my opinion, I believe that this book was an interesting point of view of this era of history that was very different from anything I had ever read before. The overarching themes that seemed to stand out to me were interesting, from the fact that many revolutionaries and founding fathers really wanted to keep the social structure that the colonies lived under intact, especially since those were the same ones that kept them in power over others, as well as the initial utopian view that the new nation was something that would be better than what they had left behind as colonies of Great Britain. Of course this would prove to be true later in history, but it took a lot of work and
In the years and decades following the Revolution, there were a myriad of changes that occurred that would form the society and government, all of which were not at all surprising or unexpected. The disagreements between states and statesmen about the new nation, such as: the strength and formation the new nation would take – particularly between Federalist and Anti-Federalists; the issue of slavery, which surprisingly was not discussed as much as I expected given the subject matter and the time period presented, and the manner of representation in the brand new nation. In my opinion, I believe that this book was an interesting point of view of this era of history that was very different from anything I had ever read before. The overarching themes that seemed to stand out to me were interesting, from the fact that many revolutionaries and founding fathers really wanted to keep the social structure that the colonies lived under intact, especially since those were the same ones that kept them in power over others, as well as the initial utopian view that the new nation was something that would be better than what they had left behind as colonies of Great Britain. Of course this would prove to be true later in history, but it took a lot of work and