The American Revolution and the political culture of the early republic dominate Gordon S. Wood’s historical writing. Wood writes history of the American Revolution, the early republic and the political ideas that shaped the new United States. The Radicalism of the American Revolution argues that independence transformed social relationships and expectations as well as political institutions. The Creation of the American Republic examines the constitutional and ideological debates between independence and the Constitution, while Empire of Liberty surveys the early national period from the 1780s through the War of 1812. Wood’s work is scholarly but readable, giving sustained attention to republicanism, social hierarchy, citizenship and the changing meaning of democracy. He is less concerned with battlefield narrative than with political culture and institutions. In discovery terms, the work connects with His books American Revolution history, constitutional history, early US politics and intellectual history. Read more Less
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