Protocols of liberty: communication innovation and the American Revolution

Introduction: communication and the American crisis

The invention of the Boston Committee of Correspondence and the popular declaration

The protocols of the declarations and the eclipse of royal power in Massachusetts in 1773

The post and newspaper in British America: a communication system in crisis

The Whig network scales up: inflecting the crisis from Williamsburg

"A chain of freedom has been formed": the First Continental Congress develops into the hub of an intercolonial network

The panorama of the Declaration

Conclusion: the American Revolution as a gift.