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Bernhard Knollenberg, Origin of the American Revolution: 1759-1766. Indianapolis, Indiana: Liberty Fund, Inc., 2002. xxxi + 368 pp. ISBN 0-86597-382-2.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 June 2011
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1 Nash, Gary, Quakers and Politics: Pennsylvania, 1681-1726 (Princeton University Press, 1968)Google Scholar ; Young, Alfred, Dissent: Explorations in the History of American Radicalism (Northern Illinois University Press, 1968)Google Scholar ; Lemisch, Jesse, ‘Jack Tar in the Streets: Merchant Seamen in the Politics of Revolutionary America’, William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Ser., No. 25 (1968) 371–407Google Scholar ; and Staughton, Lynd, Class Conflict, Slavery, and the United States Constitution (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1968)Google Scholar ; and Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism (New York: Pantheon Books, 1968)Google Scholar.
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