Friday, June 14, 2013
First Section of Wood's Book-Monarchy
Well, the book reads pretty quickly and easily to me, but I am a bit disappointed from the get go. When I read a title that has "Radicalism" in it, I am hoping for something a bit more radical than the fact that the revolution changed society and based it around the live of ordinary people. I can understand his point, but just not what I was expecting his argument and topic to be. After the first section of the book it seems like Wood is painting a picture of a complex series of hierarchical relations in the colonies that could be viewed as more strict and monarchical than was present in England at the time. At the very end he mentions that at the dawn of the Revolution a new, less hierarchically minded group was rising.
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When I think od radicalism' I think of it as something radical happening and at that time, the American Revolution did bring about a radical change in America's society, in her politics and in her culture. I would say these were radical and they were extensive. Although we know that the Revolution failed to abolish slavery and fundamentally change the lot of women, we can say that that the Revolution brought some significance to ant-slavery and women's rights movement.(Woods, 1993).
ReplyDeleteYou make a good point Yates and Harper. I was not even thinking of how women or slaves would view this argument of the Revolution being "radical". While the changes were radical for middle to upper-class colonist, how much of a change was there for slaves and women. Good point.
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