Becoming America: The Revolution Before 1776
- ISBN-10
- 0674006674
- ISBN-13
- 9780674006676
- Series
- Becoming America
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 324
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001-12-28
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Author
- Jon Butler
Description
Multinational, profit-driven, materialistic, power-hungry, religiously plural: America today—and three hundred years ago. Jon Butler’s panoramic view of the mainland American colonies after 1680 transforms our customary picture of pre-Revolutionary America; it reveals a strikingly “modern“ character that belies the eighteenth-century quaintness fixed in history. Stressing the middle and late decades (the hitherto “dark ages”) of the American colonial experience, Butler shows us vast revolutionary changes in a society that, for ninety years before 1776, was already becoming America.
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