Growth of the American Revolution: 1766–1775 - Softcover

Knollenberg, Bernhard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0865974160 ISBN 13: 9780865974166

Publisher: Liberty Fund, 2003

Synopsis

In the fall of 2002, Liberty Fund published noted historian Bernhard Knollenberg’s Origin of the American Revolution. Now Liberty Fund proudly announces the publication of the second volume of Knollenberg’s masterwork on the American Revolution.

Knollenberg describes Growth of the American Revolution as . . . an Account of the Change in the Minds and Hearts of a Majority of the People of the Thirteen Colonies Who Rebelled against Great Britain in 1775, together with a description of the Provocative Conduct of the British Parliament and Government Accounting for this Change and the Colonists’ Responses to the said Conduct.”

Continuing the work Knollenberg began in the first book, Growth of the American Revolution covers the period from the repeal of the Stamp Act in 1766 to the outbreak of hostilities at Lexington and Concord in 1775. Taken together, these volumes present a cogent and authoritative history from an objective and scholarly point of view.

Bernard W. Sheehan is Professor emeritus of history at Indiana University and past editor of the Indiana Magazine of History.

About this title

About the Author:

Bernard W Sheehan is Professor emeritus of history at Indiana University and past editor of the Indiana Magazine of History.

Review:

This is the second half of a work dedicated to demonstrating the idea that the foundations of the American Republic had been progressively developing from early in the eighteenth century. The late Knollenberg (at various times a lawyer, government bureaucrat, and amateur historian) argues that economic, ideological, and political institutions had developed before 1774 and that these institutions slowly wrested authority from the British.

Reference & Research Book News
February 2004
Very strongly recommended for academic and community library American History collections, Growth of the American Revolution: 1766-1775 by Bernhard Knollenberg (Professor Emeritus of History, Indiana University) is an impressively in-depth and informative study of American revolutionary history from the repeal of the Stamp Act in 1766 to the outbreak of violence at Lexington and Concord in 1775. Delineating key events and incorporating a discussion of the historiography, Growth of the American Revolution: 1766-1775 is an expansive and scholarly work so heavily researched that the extensive notes to the chapters take up almost as many pages as the chapters themselves.

The Bookwatch
December 2003

About this edition

• Publisher: Liberty Fund
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0865974160
• ISBN 13: 9780865974166
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 675
• Editor: Sheehan Bernard W.