From one of America's most celebrated historians, the Pulitzer
Prize winner Gordon S. Wood, comes an early work whose relevance is
undiminished. Originally published in 1969, now revised and with a
new preface, Representation in the American Revolution examines the
ways in which a government is created and how, in the face of great
difficulties as well as great possibilities, its citizens are
represented. Written immediately after the completion of Wood's
Bancroft Award-winning The Creation of the American Republic, this
book elaborates on issues also explored in that landmark work.
The subject is one that lies at the heart of any discussion of
democracy. Establishing a proper method of representation was a
goal and measure of the American Revolution, or as Thomas Jefferson
said in 1776, "the whole object of the present controversy." A fine
example of political and constitutional history, this timeless
little book will serve as an excellent introduction to issues of
representation for students in the fields of political science, as
well as history and law.
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