Brown,Richard.D Revolutionary Politics in Massachusetts Clipped dustcover over original boards, with

Clipped dustcover over original boards, with gilt lettering to spine.

More than a century and a half ago, John Adams urged that 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 1772-1774, 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.

Half-Title. Double spread map. Title. Preface. Contents. Illustrations. xiv plus 282 pages text.

Very clean copy.