| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.4

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Book Review

Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution. By Benjamin L. Carp. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xii, 334 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-19-530402-2.)

In Rebels Rising, Benjamin L. Carp asserts that urbanites led the movement to American independence. Carp seeks to illuminate what he repeatedly calls the process of "political mobilization," the unfolding actions that, building on the "internal networks of dependence" in cities, created "a civic consciousness" that culminated in revolution. However, he also stresses that conflicting interests of class, status, and world view meant that "urban coalitions were often fragile and fleeting" (p. 14). Whig leaders were, says Carp, especially successful at political mobilization because they negotiated with—and to some degree accommodated—less powerful members of society. For their part, the king's friends typically displayed a haughty inflexibility that helped doom their "countermobilization" efforts.

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