'Origin of the American Revolution: 1759-1766' is the outgrow of an effort to discover why the principal British colonies in North America were on the point of rebellion in 1765-1766, ten years before the outbreak of the American Revolution. The author, Bernhard Knollenberg, a lecturer at Yale University, previously published biographies of Lord Baltimore and Lord Cornwallis and many other studies related to different events of the American Colonial Period. It is worth pointing out that Knollenberg wrote this book in 1964-1965, during a period of profound reforms and changes in the Americ…
