![]() Wood organizes the book around three models or ideal types. This all took place in a preindustrial society in which the social pressures to be seen later in the nineteenth century were not yet present such as economic and social conflicts arising from industrialism, but where government, often corrupt and arbitrary and intertwined with the hierarchical structure of society, was viewed as the primary opponent to necessary change. The social transformation also entailed political changes but these were not as radical as the French Revolution. This transformation was radical because it changed America from a hierarchical/monarchical society into an egalitarian/democratic one. ![]() ![]() By the radicalism of the American Revolution, Gordon Wood is referring to the social transformation that he argues took place between 17. ![]()
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