Research Catalog

Title

The creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 / by Gordon S. Wood.

Author

Wood, Gordon S.

Publication

Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press, [1998], ©1998.

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Additional Authors

Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.)

Description

xxii, 653 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• Illuminates the concepts of the Constitution by studying the cultural situation of the colonists.
• "During the Revolutionary era, American political theory underwent a fundamental transformation that carried the nation out of a basically classical and medieval world of political discussion into a milieu that was recognizably modern. This classic work is a study of that transformation. Gordon Wood describes in rich detail the evolution of political thought from the Declaration of Independence to the ratification of the Constitution and in the process greatly illuminates the origins of the present American political system." "In a new preface, Wood discusses the debate over republicanism that has developed since - and as a result of - the book's original publication in 1969."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• United States
• Political science
• USA
• História dos estados unidos
• Política (história) > Estados unidos
• United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783
• Geschichte 1776-1787
• History
• American Revolution (1775-1783)
• Political science > United States > History

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

pt. 1: The ideology of revolution. The Whig science of politics -- Republicanism -- Moral reformation -- pt. 2: The constitution of the states. The restructuring of power -- The nature of representation -- Mixed government and bicameralism -- pt. 3: The people against the legislatures. Law and contracts -- Conventions of the people -- The sovereignty of the people -- pt. 4: The critical period. Vices of the system -- Republican remedies -- pt. 5: The federal constitution. The worthy against the licentious -- The Federalism persuasion -- pt. 6: The revolutionary achievement. The relevance and irrelevance of John Adams -- The American science of politics.

ISBN

• 0807824224
• 9780807824221
• 0807847232
• 9780807847237
• 0807811041
• 9780807811047

LCCN

• 97044269
• 99960766069

OCLC

• ocm38061518
• 38061518
• SCSB-5245712

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries