 | The Revolution Is Now Begun: The Radical Committees of Philadelphia, 1765-1776 Subjects: Philadelphia -- History -- Colonial period ca. 1600–1775; Philadelphia -- History -- Revolution 1775–1783; Pennsylvania -- History -- Revolution 1775–1783; 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. Richard Alan Ryerson retired as Senior Historian at The David Library of the American Revolution. He is coeditor (with Gregory Freemont-Barnes) of The Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War: A Political, Social, and Military History and editor of John Adams and the Founding of the Republic. |
