Becoming America: The Revolution Before 1776
In his view of Britain’s mainland American colonies after 1680, Butler reveals a strikingly “modern” character belying the quaintness fixed in history. Multinational, profit-driven, materialistic, politically self-conscious, power-hungry, religiously plural—the colonies became a “new order of the ages” anticipating the American Revolution.
336 pages
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Introduction 1. Peoples 2. Economy 3. Politics 4. Things Material 5. Things Spiritual 6. 1776 Notes Acknowledgments Index