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 panoramic view of the colonies in this epoch
transforms our customary picture of prerevolutionary 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, 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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