The Creation of the American Republic 1776-1787

Informationen zum Autor Gordon S. Wood is Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown University. He is a regular contributor to the New Republic and the New York Review of Books and is the author of numerous best-selling books, including most recently Revolutionary Characters and The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin. Klappentext This volume describes 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, he discusses the debate over republicanism that has developed since the book's original publication by UNC Press in 1969. Zusammenfassung This text describes the evolution of political thought from the Declaration to the ratification of the Constitution. The author discusses the debate over Republicanism.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Gordon S. Wood is Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown University. He is a regular contributor to the New Republic and the New York Review of Books and is the author of numerous best-selling books, including most recently Revolutionary Characters and The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Institute of Early American History and, Gordon S Wood, Gordon S. Wood
• Verlag: University Of North Carolina
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.04.1998
• EAN: 9780807847237
• ISBN: 978-0-8078-4723-7
• Seiten: 653
• Abmessung: 146 mm x 229 mm x 44 mm
• Serien: Published for the Omohundro In; Published by the Omohundro Ins; Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
• Themen: Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung