Author: Gordon S. Wood
Publisher: Modern Library
Keywords: library, chronicles, modern, history, revolution, american
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-08-19
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0812970411
ISBN-13: 9780812970418

Gordon S. Wood’s The American Revolution, part of the Modern Library Chronicles series, is an erudite, concise summary of the events and circumstances surrounding the seminal conflict, both physical and philosophical, in American history. The Modern Library Chronicles are accessible-but-serious works of scholarship, meant to serve as introductions (or refresher courses) on large subjects for interested readers. The American Revolution is an excellent case in point. Wood deftly describes seeds of the Revolution, most notably disgruntlement on the colonists’ part brought about by inc

Author: Gordon S. Wood
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: history, united, states, oxford, republic, liberty, empire
Number of Pages: 800
Published: 2009-10-28
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0195039149
ISBN-13: 9780195039146

The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize winners, two New York Times bestsellers, and winners of the Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. Now, in the newest volume in the series, one of America’s most esteemed historians, Gordon S. Wood, offers a brilliant account of the early American Republic, ranging from 1789 and the beginning of the national government to the end of the War of 1812. As Wood reveals, the period was marked by tumultuous change in all aspects of American life--in politics,

Author: Gordon S. Wood
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Pre
Keywords: american, culture, williamsburg, virginia, history, omohundro, republic, published, creation, institute
Number of Pages: 675
Published: 1998-04-06
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0807847232
ISBN-13: 9780807847237

Gordon S. Wood--winner of the Pulitzer Prize and professor of American history at Brown University--had no idea what he was getting into when he began this 653-page book. Innocently, he wanted to write a "monographic analysis of constitution-making in the Revolutionary era." Little did he know he would discover an intellectual world where a complete transformation of political thought was occurring, one that would create "a distinctly American system of politics." As Wood explains, "Beneath the variety and idiosyncrasies of American opinion there emerged a general pattern of beliefs about the

Author: Gordon S. Wood
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: revolution, american, radicalism
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 1993-03-02
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0679736883
ISBN-13: 9780679736882

In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian depicts much more than a break with England. He gives readers a revolution that transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities sometimes baffled and disappointed its founding fathers.

Author: Gordon S. Wood
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: different, founders, made, characters, revolutionary
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2007-05-29
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0143112082
ISBN-13: 9780143112082

In this brilliantly illuminating group portrait of the men who came to be known as the Founding Fathers, the incomparable Gordon Wood has written a book that seriously asks, "What made these men great?"—and shows us, among many other things, just how much character did in fact matter. The life of each—Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, Hamilton, Madison, Paine—is presented individually as well as collectively, but the thread that binds these portraits together is the idea of character as a lived reality. They were members of the first generation in history that was self-

Author: Gordon S. Wood
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: franklin, benjamin, americanization
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2005-05-31
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0143035282
ISBN-13: 9780143035282

From the most respected chronicler of the early days of the Republic—and winner of both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes—comes a landmark work that rescues Benjamin Franklin from a mythology that has blinded generations of Americans to the man he really was and makes sense of aspects of his life and career that would have otherwise remained mysterious. In place of the genial polymath, self-improver, and quintessential American, Gordon S. Wood reveals a figure much more ambiguous and complex—and much more interesting. Charting the passage of Franklin’s life and reputation

Authors:Audrey Wood,  Don Wood, Alma Flor Ada, F. Isab
Publisher: Sandpiper
Keywords: adormecida, casa
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 1995-09-29
List price: $7.00
ISBN-10: 0152000534
ISBN-13: 9780152000530

The Spanish-language edition of The Napping House.