The Revolution of the People: Thoughts and Documents on the Revolutionary Process in North America 1774-1776Hermann Wellenreuther Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2006 - 358 páginas The three essays and the collection of documents focus on the nature of the revolutionary process in North America between 1774 and 1776. Both suggest that this process was the work of Committees of Inspection and Observation founded in 1774/75 in all colonies and dissolved after the passing of the Declaration of Independence. These committees were founded as a result of associations in which colonists pledged their acceptance of the resolves of the Continental Congress. Associations defi ned revolutionary values as well as pre-national concepts, the committees supervised the trade boycott as well as the adherence to these revolutionary values. Those who broke the boycott or rejected the values were declared [alpha]enemies of liberty± or [alpha]enemies of the American cause±. As a result, American colonial society was divided into Revolutionaries and "enemies of liberty". The documents - texts of associations and resolutions of the committees of inspection and observations all published in colonial newspapers - illustrate this new interpretation of the nature of revolutionary process of the American Revolution. |
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ADAMS American Revolution Anniversary Assembly Author Baltimore Benjamin Edes BLACK Boston Bridge Britain Cambridge Captain Chapel Hill Charles Church of Christ City Civil College Colonies Committee of Observation Company Connecticut Considered Continental Congress Council County Court David Day appointed Delivered Desire Dictionary Discourse District Duty Election England English Evans FRANKLIN Front-Street Gazette GREENE Hall Hartford Hearers Henry Historical History Honorable House Humphreys Independence Inspection Jack James Jersey Joseph Journal July Lancaster Letter Liberty London March Maryland Massachusetts Massachusetts-Bay Minutes Nineteenth of April North November Officers Origins Oxford Pastor Pennsylvania Philadelphia Place Political preached at Lexington Preached in Christ-Church Present Princeton Printed and Sold Printed by Eben Printed by John Providence Provincial Congress Published Published by Request Records Representatives Revolutionary Richard Rising Robert Samuel Sermon Preached SMITH Society Street Study Thomas Thought Thursday tion Town United Colonies Virginia vols Washington Watertown Watson William Worcester York