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Revolution Is Now Begun : the Radical Committees of Philadelphia, 1765-1776.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Abbreviations; Table of Symbols; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Progressive Challenge; Chapter 1 Pennsylvania's Old Regime; Chapter 2 The Birth of Radical Politics; Chapter 3 Founding the Committee System; Chapter 4 The Revolution of the Elite; Chapter 5 The Legitimization of Radical Politics; Chapter 6 Philadelphians Take Up Arms; Chapter 7 The ""Wordy War"" for Independence; Chapter 8 The Revolution of the Middle Classes; Chapter 9 The Revolution Is Now Begun; Chapter 10 The American Revolution and the Origin of Modern American Politics.
- AppendixesAppendix A: Turnover in Pennsylvania Assembly membership, 1704-80; Appendix B: Members of the Pennsylvania Assembly, October 1773-September 1774; Appendix C: Members of the 1773-74 Assembly session: seniority and standing committee assignments; Appendix D: Merchants' committee appointed in November 1765; Appendix E: Retailers' committee appointed in November 1765; Appendix F: ""Joseph Reed's Narrative, "" Charles Thomson's letter to William Henry Drayton, and Philadelphia politics, 1774; Appendix G: Committee appointed by the mechanics on June 9, 1774.
- Appendix H: Spokesmen whom the mechanics and Germans sought to add to the Forty-Three, chosen June 17, 1774Appendix I: Committee appointed by a meeting of tradesmen, July 8, 1774; Appendix J: Supervisors of the November 10 election and judges of the November 12 election, 1774; Appendix K: Tickets run on November 12, 1774; Appendix L: Tickets run on August 16, 1775; Appendix M: Committeemen who served between May 1774 and February 1776; Appendix N: Men nominated to committee tickets in 1774-75, but never elected to committee office after May 1774; A Note on Sources; Bibliography; Index; A; B.
- CD; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.