Rhetoric and Reality in the American Revolution
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4223208 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gordon S Wood (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1966 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3 |
| Publication date | 1966-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The William and Mary Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-5597 • E-ISSN: 1933-7698 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2936154 |
| OpenAlex | W2313376768 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 26 |
F any catch phrase is to characterize work being done on I American Revolution by this generation of historians, it will probably be the American Revolution considered as an intellectual movement.' For we now seem to be fully involved in a phase of writing about Revolution in which thought of Revolutionaries, rather than their social and economic interests, has become major focus of research and analysis. This recent emphasis on ideas is not of course new, and indeed right from beginning it has characterized almost all our attempts to understand Revolution. The ideas of a period which Samuel Eliot Morison and Harold Laski once described as, next to English revolutionary decades of seventeenth century, most fruitful era in history of Western political thought could never be completely ignored in any phase of our history writing.2 It has not been simply inherent importance of Revolutionary ideas, those principles of freedom,3 that has continually attracted attention of historians. It has been rather unusual nature of Revolution and constant need to explain what on face of it seems inexplicable that has compelled almost all interpreters of Revolution, including participants themselves, to stress its predominantly intellectual character and hence its uniqueness among Western revolutions. Within context of Revolutionary historiography one great effort to disparage significance of ideas in Revolution-an effort which dominated our history writing in first half of twentieth century
Aesthetics · Art · Character (mathematics · Context (archaeology · Economic history · Historiography · Industrial Revolution · Intellectual history · Literature · Period (music · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Philosophy
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Origins of the southern mind
The Legacy and Authority of the Founders
England, America, and the American Revolution
Taxation and the Seven Years' War
Political Economy and Reality
The Birth, Death, and Resurrection of the Provincial Dilemma
What was the original intent? The Tea Party movement, the Founding Fathers, and the American welfare state
Starting with the Indians
Governmental Institutions as Agents of Change
Crime, the Criminal Law and Reform in Post-Revolutionary Virginia
The politics of insurrection
An emerging rationale for revolution
South Carolina Loyalists in the American Revolution
Revolution in the Quarterly? A Historiographical Analysis
A (New) Economic History of the American Revolution
What Kind of Book is The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
The Literature of Revolution and the Origins of Ideological Origins
The Creation of the American Republic at Fifty
Labor in the era of the American revolution
The historiographical dilemma in Myrdal's American greed
Now Wait for Last Year’
Rationality, Inaccurate Mental Models, and Self-confirming Equilibrium
Economic Burden
Moses Mather (Old Calvinist) and the Evolution of Edwardseanism
| Unique citing works | 26 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,51 |
| Citation span | 1975 - 2023 (49) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 26 |