The success of the American Revolution is less likely to be understood through an examination of its ideological origins than through a close analysis of the political processes by which principles, beliefs, and anxieties were translated into revolutionary action. This book offers the first detailed profile of the several hundred obscure committeemen and propagandists who took up the new revolutionary ideology and carried it that one last step: out...
Richard Alan Ryerson retired as Senior Historian at The David Library of the American Revolution. He is coeditor (with Gregory Freemont-Barnes) of The Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War: A Political, Social, and Military History and editor of John Adams and the Founding of the Republic.
"Well written and touched with the author's skill in supplying the suspense of a good mystery story, the book shows how the revolutionary committees served as the prime mechanism first to stimulate Pennsylvania's protest against British policies and then to challenge the existing political order."—William and Mary Quarterly
"A most important contribution to our understanding of Pennsylvania's history."—Reviews in American History
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