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100 1 $aButler, Jon,$d1940-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82221673
245 10 $aBecoming America :$bthe revolution before 1776 /$cJon Butler.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bHarvard University Press,$c2000.
300 $ax, 324 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 251-311) and index.
520 1 $a"Multinational, profit-driven, materialistic, politically self-conscious, power-hungry, religiously plural: America three hundred years ago - and today. Here are Britain's mainland American colonies after 1680, in the process of becoming the first modern society - a society the earliest colonists never imagined, a "new order of the ages" that anticipated the American Revolution.
520 8 $aJon Butler's view of the colonies in this epoch reveals a strikingly "modern" character that belies the eighteenth-century quaintness fixed in history.".
520 8 $a"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.".
520 8 $a"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.
520 8 $aHere was a society that turned protest into revolution and remade itself many times during the next centuries - a society that, for ninety years before 1776, was becoming America."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140131
651 0 $aUnited States$xCivilization$yTo 1783.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139935
651 4 $aUnited States$xCivilization$yTo 1783.
651 4 $aUnited States$xHistory$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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