Author: Boston Committee
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
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Author: Boston Committee
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Category : Public depositaries
Languages : en
Pages : 26

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Author: Richard D. Brown
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674272366
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433

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More than a century and a half ago, John Adams urged scholars investigate the communications of the Boston Committee of Correspondence, the most radical and important of the revolutionary committees of correspondence. Such a study, Adams suggested, would reveal the underlying impetus of the revolutionary movement. Now, for the first time, Richard D. Brown has made an exhaustive and systematic analysis of the committee that set a pattern for America and for the world by keeping alive the revolutionary spirit at a time when the issues were cloudy and public interest was dormant. The Boston committee, organized to arouse the people of Massachusetts and to inform them of their rights, initiated the use of local committees of correspondence and went on to become a major revolutionary institution which helped bring about fundamental changes in Massachusetts politics. Mr. Brown's book focuses on the years 1772 to 1774, when the inhabitants of Massachusetts moved from quiet accommodation with the British imperial system to massive rebellion against it. His investigations of the records of the Boston committee and of voluminous town records never before studied have resulted in a revision of previous interpretations regarding the interaction between leaders in Boston and the people in the towns. The author's findings indicate that the Boston committee did not control Massachusetts political action, manipulating the political behavior of the towns, as earlier theorists have suggested. Though Boston was a leader, the towns generally acted independently, and government by consent developed effectively on the local level. The letters which passed between the capital and the countryside reveal an expanding political consciousness and an ever-increasing political sophistication at the grass-roots level. They articulate an essentially radical view of politics based on popular sovereignty. As an account of the process of political integration among a colonial people engaged in an independence movement, this book will appeal not only to historians but also to political scientists concerned with the emerging nations of the twentieth century.

Author: New Boston Committee
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Languages : en
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Author: Anonymous
Publisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9780530356303
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Author: Boston Committee on Alcoholism, Inc
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Category :
Languages : en
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Author: Boston (Mass.). Committee of Donations
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Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Boston (Mass.). School Committee
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Author: Mary E. Hull
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 0766063356
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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This book tells the story of the people and events involved in the Boston Tea Party, which marked one of the first times the American colonists publicly protested their treatment by Great Britain. Highlighting the individuals who participated in and planned the Tea Party, allegedly including Paul Revere and Sam Adams, the author shows how the Tea Party became an event that invoked harsh reactions from Britain, and in turn, sparked the break from England that led to the American Revolution.

Author: Boston (Mass.). School Committee
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 620

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