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- catalog abstract ""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. Jon Butler's view of the colonies in this epoch reveals a strikingly "modern" character that belies the eighteenth-century quaintness fixed in history." "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 - a society that, for ninety years before 1776, was becoming America."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11571728.
- catalog coverage "United States Civilization To 1783.".
- catalog coverage "United States History Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775.".
- catalog coverage "United States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.".
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""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."".
- catalog description ""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 - a society that, for ninety years before 1776, was becoming America."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""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. Jon Butler's view of the colonies in this epoch reveals a strikingly "modern" character that belies the eighteenth-century quaintness fixed in history."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-311) and index.".
- catalog description "Peoples -- Economy -- Politics -- Things material -- Things spiritual.".
- catalog extent "x, 324 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Becoming America.".
- catalog identifier "0674000919 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Becoming America.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,".
- catalog relation "Becoming America.".
- catalog spatial "United States Civilization To 1783.".
- catalog spatial "United States History Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775.".
- catalog spatial "United States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.".
- catalog subject "973.2 21".
- catalog subject "E188 .B97 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "Peoples -- Economy -- Politics -- Things material -- Things spiritual.".
- catalog title "Becoming America : the revolution before 1776 / Jon Butler.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".