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A 3 page book review of The American Revolution, A History by Gordon S. Wood, which offers the reader an articulate, well-written, expertly researched summary of the events and situations that led up to the war with Great Britain, which resulted in the birth of the United States. Wood’s obvious purpose is to provide a comprehensive synthesis of scholarship, but he also establishes several salient themes that add insight into the period and its political and social atmosphere for his readers. No additional sources cited.
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to the war with Great Britain, which resulted in the birth of the United States. Woods obvious purpose is to provide a comprehensive synthesis of scholarship, but he also establishes
several salient themes that add insight into the period and its political and social atmosphere for his readers. First of all, Wood describes the conditions that led up to
war, paying particular attention to the discontent and frustration of the colonists at the ill-advised and clumsy attempts of Great Britain to establish dominance over their North American colonies, which
had grown used to self-governance during the years when the British were preoccupied with domestic and European affairs. Wood describes how the British Empire was a "loosely organized" affair until
the 1760s when Britain suddenly "thrust its imperial power" on to the political world stage (Wood 1). Wood explains why the legislation that so irritated colonists, such as the Stamp
Act of 1775, was viewed by British officials as their natural right and as being fiscal responsibility. Fighting the French and Indian War had been costly and the British felt
perfectly justified in requiring the colonies to help pay for this expense. The colonists did not share this view. With insight, scholarship and lucidity, this author deftly portrays how British
policies enraged the colonist who saw them as encroachment on their traditionally established liberties. What the British saw as their established rights, the colonists viewed as tyranny. In presenting
the facts and events relevant to the Revolution, Wood adroitly offers a synthesis of scholarship that has occurred over the course of the last three decades. This factor alone makes
the text a worthy read for anyone who is even casually interested in history, as Woods text provides a overview of scholarship without complicating his discourse with the jargon of
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