LEADER 05063nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910779473403321 005 20230710202931.0 010 $a1-283-89843-8 010 $a0-8122-0683-5 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812206838 035 $a(CKB)2550000000707672 035 $a(OCoLC)561420186 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642157 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000811758 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11433739 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000811758 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10850938 035 $a(PQKB)10058800 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse21420 035 $a(DE-B1597)449583 035 $a(OCoLC)979724282 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812206838 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441822 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642157 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421093 035 $a(OCoLC)843076335 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441822 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000707672 100 $a20770727h19781978 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Revolution is now begun $ethe radical committees of Philadelphia, 1765-1776 /$fRichard Alan Ryerson 210 1$a[Philadelphia] :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d1978. 210 4$aŠ1978 215 $a1 online resource (xv, 305 pages) $cillustrations 311 0 $a0-8122-2213-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Figures --$tList of Tables --$tAbbreviations --$tTable of Symbols --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: The Progressive Challenge --$tChapter 1. Pennsylvania's Old Regime --$tChapter 2. The Birth of Radical Politics --$tChapter 3. Founding the Committee System --$tChapter 4. The Revolution of the Elite --$tChapter 5. The Legitimization of Radical Politics --$tChapter 6. Pennsylvanians Take up Arms --$tChapter 7. The "Wordy War" for Independence --$tChapter 8. The Revolution of the Middle Classes --$tChapter 9. "The Revolution is Now Begun" --$tChapter 10. The American Revolution and the Origin of Modern American Politics --$tAppendixes --$tA Note on Sources For Studying the Committee Movement --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThe 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 1760's and early 1770's 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 painstaking enlistment of a strong leadership core, the construction of new political institutions, and the rapid mobilization of the majority of the community could overcome these deficiencies. In Pennsylvania British authority succumbed to the activity of a few hundred men who were drawn into public life by a handful of veteran politicians within just two years. To these men and to their committees Pennsylvania owes its revolution. In his book Richard Alan Ryerson focuses on the daily business of politics in the Revolutionary period?the art of motivation for radical political purposes?and its economic and social dimensions in the most prominent American city of the time. How were the colonists mobilized for resistance? What was the political process? Who were the disaffected people who became the radical leaders of the Philadelphia community? To answer these questions, Ryerson compares campaigning styles, nomination and election procedures, and local political organizations in the colonial era with their counterparts during the Revolution. He also examines the age, economic status, religious faith, and national origins of the men who formed the radical committees of Philadelphia between 1765 and 1776. 606 $aHISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)$2bisacsh 607 $aPhiladelphia (Pa.)$xHistory$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775 607 $aPhiladelphia (Pa.)$xHistory$yRevolution, 1775-1783 607 $aPennsylvania$xHistory$yRevolution, 1775-1783 615 7$aHISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775). 676 $a974.8/11/03 700 $aRyerson$b Richard Alan$f1942-$01490612 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779473403321 996 $aThe Revolution is now begun$93712079 997 $aUNINA