The Revolution Is Now Begun
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The Revolution Is Now BegunThe Radical Committees of Philadelphia, 1765-1776Richard Alan RyersonA most important contribution to our understanding of Pennsylvanias history.--Reviews in American HistoryWell written and touched with the authors 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 Pennsylvanias protest against British policies and then to challenge the existing political order.--William and Mary QuarterlyOn the eve of the Revolution, Pennsylvania was governed by a well-entrenched Quaker oligarchy. . . . In two years--from 1774 to 1775--this hegenomy was at first undermined and then overthrown. The authors searching and thoroughly exhaustive analysis of the numerous extraconstitutional committees that rose to prominence in these two years is an attempt to explain both the speed and extent of the revolution and to gauge its precise revolutionary character.--Urban HistoryThe 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 of the realm of rhetoric and into the domain of concrete change. And participatory democracy as a principle of American government owes its realization largely to these second-rank politicians and ordinary citizens, who provided the basic muscle of Revolutionary politics.In the 1760s and early 1770s Pennsylvania lacked nearly every ingredient for revolution found elsewhere in the colonies: a strong dissenting tradition, widely felt economic grievances, or a legislature intimately acquainted with royal government. Only the p
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