The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787
By Gordon S. Wood
With a new preface by the author
680 pp., 6 x 9, notes, index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-4723-7
Published: April 1998 -
E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-0-8078-9981-6
Published: February 2011 -
E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-7086-5
Published: February 2011
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
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Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Awards & distinctions
1970 Bancroft Prize, Columbia University
1970 John H. Dunning Prize, American Historical Association
"During the nearly two decades since its publication, this book has set the pace, furnished benchmarks, and afforded targets for many subsequent studies. If ever a work of history merited the appellation 'modern classic,' this is surely one."--William and Mary Quarterly
"[A] brilliant and sweeping interpretation of political culture in the Revolutionary generation."--New England Quarterly
"This is an admirable, thoughtful, and penetrating study of one of the most important chapters in American history."--Wesley Frank Craven
About the Author
Gordon S. Wood is Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown University.
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"One of the half dozen most important books ever written about the American Revolution."—New York Times Book Review
"During the nearly two decades since its publication, this book has set the pace, furnished benchmarks, and afforded targets for many subsequent studies. If ever a work of history merited the appellation 'modern classic,' this is surely one."—William and Mary Quarterly
"A brilliant and sweeping interpretation of political culture in the Revolutionary generation."—New England Quarterly
"This is an admirable, thoughtful, and penetrating study of one of the most important chapters in American history."—Wesley Frank Craven