A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775-1783Royster, Charles
9780674000919
Becoming America: The Revolution Before 1776
Jon Butler
ISBN 10: 0674000919 / 0-674-00091-9
ISBN 13: 9780674000919
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 13: 9780674000919
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Hardcover
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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 vast revolutionary changes before 1776 among a fantastically diverse assortment of peoples. Here are polyglot populations of English, Indians, Africans, Scots, Germans, Swiss, 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 already becoming America.
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"[Butler's] book is a tour-de-force of synthesis [of current scholarship in colonial studies]."
Gordon S. Wood, New Republic, 06/12/2000
Review:"...Butler has an eye for the odd detail or unusual instance that illuminates the whole. His discussion of religion is especially compelling and fresh."
Robert Middlekauff, Times Literary Supplement, 06/16/2000
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