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A paper which looks at Woods' Radicalism of the American Revolution in terms of the impact which the revolution had on the development of an “American ideology” and also with regard to its lack of salient characteristics generally associated with political revolution such as class conflict, terrorism, or mass violence. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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it had on the development of an "American ideology" but also with regard to the lack of salient characteristics generally associated with political revolution - class conflict, terrorism, mass violence,
for example, or the industrialization and urbanization which characterized the Industrial Revolution in Britain. He begins by pointing out that despite their rejection of
the British monarchy, the early colonists had no cohesive ideology which could as yet be regarded as "American"; in fact, they retained a great deal in common with their homeland.
He comments that "in some respects colonial society was more traditional than that of the mother country" (Wood, 1993, 12) and that "whatever sense of unity the . . colonies
had came from their common tie to the British crown" (Wood, 1993, 12). If the colonists were considered to be "defiant of social and political authority" (Wood, 1993, 13) this
was regarded as exemplifying their "Englishness". He notes that republican values, in many ways, co-existed with monarchical ones in England itself;
it would not be accurate to say that those in the old country were staunch monarchists whilst those in the new were equally staunch republicans. In one sense, therefore, the
progress of the revolution was not so much the rejection of one set of political and social values and the generation of another, but the logical outcome of existing strands
of political and philosophical thought which could be found in both the old country and in the colonies. Wood contends
that the revolution did not merely cut the ties between the new society and the dominance of the Crown, but did so in such a way that the monarchical attributes
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