Section 1 The Radicalism of the American Revolution

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"Monarchy" is the title of section one of Gordon S. Wood's The Radicalism of the American Revolution.  In the introduction to the book, Wood contends that the "American Revolution was as radical and social as any revolution in history, but it was radical and social in a very special eighteenth-century sense." This quote seems to be the basis of Wood's core argument throughout the book.  I believe the American Revolution of the eighteenth-century was a radical and social event at the same time.  The American Revolution was certainly a first in human kind.  The radical and social ideas of this revolution would lead to many other revolutions around the world, in the future, but the American Revolution against British monarchical authority was certainly unique from the start.