Becoming America: The Revolution Before 1776 Paperback - 2001
by Butler, Jon
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Butler's panoramic view of the American colonies after 1680 transforms the customary picture of pre-revolutionary America, revealing a strikingly "modern" character that belies the 18th century quaintness fixed in history. 21 halftones.
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- Title Becoming America: The Revolution Before 1776
- Author Butler, Jon
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: First
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harvard University Press, Cumbreland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
- Date 2001-12-28
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # GOR004235767
- ISBN 9780674006676 / 0674006674
- Weight 1.06 lbs (0.48 kg)
- Dimensions 9.15 x 6.16 x 0.87 in (23.24 x 15.65 x 2.21 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Library of Congress subjects United States - History - Colonial period,, United States - Civilization - To 1783
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99054646
- Dewey Decimal Code 973.2
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Stressing the middle and late decades (the hitherto "dark ages") of the American colonial experience, and emphasizing the importance of the middle and southern colonies as well as New England, Becoming America shows us transformations before 1776 among an unusually diverse assortment of peoples. Here is a polyglot population of English, Indians, Africans, Scots, Germans, Swiss, Swedes, and French; a society of small colonial cities with enormous urban complexities; an economy of prosperous farmers thrust into international market economies; peoples of immense wealth, a burgeoning middle class, and incredible poverty.
Butler depicts settlers pursuing sophisticated provincial politics that ultimately sparked revolution and a new nation; developing new patterns in production, consumption, crafts, and trades that remade commerce at home and abroad; and fashioning a society remarkably pluralistic in religion, whose tolerance nonetheless did not extend to Africans or Indians. Here was a society that turned protest into revolution and remade itself many times during the next centuries -- asociety that, for ninety years before 1776, was becoming America.
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- Kliatt, 03/01/2002, Page 33
