Can I read Becoming America : the revolution before 1776 on EtoBox?

Becoming America : the revolution before 1776 by Jon Butler; American Council of Learned Societies is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Becoming America : the revolution before 1776 about?

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 Fas

Who reads Becoming America : the revolution before 1776?

Author

Jon Butler; American Council of Learned Societies

Publisher

Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674006676

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Philosophy, History

Rating

3.28 / 5 (114 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13