{"product_id":"becoming-america-the-revolution-before-1776-9780674006676","title":"Becoming America: The Revolution Before 1776","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the John G. Cawelti Award, Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"We must congratulate Butler for [bringing] under control [a] profusion of scholarship and [making] sense of it in fewer than 250 pages. His book is a tour de force...Compelling and readable.\"--Gordon S. Wood, \u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Americans today think of the colonial period, if at all, as a time remote from modern America, in which society was unimaginably different from ours. Butler argues persuasively that America during the late colonial period...displayed distinctive traits of modern America, among them vigorous religious pluralism, bewildering ethnic diversity, tremendous inequalities of wealth, and a materialistic society with pervasively commercial values.\"--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMultinational, profit-driven, materialistic, power-hungry, religiously plural: America today--and three hundred years ago. Jon Butler's panoramic view of the mainland American colonies after 1680 transforms our customary picture of pre-Revolutionary 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, Butler shows us vast revolutionary changes in a society that, for ninety years before 1776, was already becoming America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eButler, Jon:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Jon Butler is Howard R. Lamar Emeritus Professor of American Studies, History, and Religious Studies at Yale University and Research Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. His books include the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eBecoming America\u003c\/i\u003e and the prizewinning \u003ci\u003eAwash in a Sea of Faith\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Huguenots in America\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a past president of the Organization of American Historians.","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50872739561746,"sku":"9780674006676","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c2289a1b-61f0-4774-932d-0ddb62ef9b34.jpg?v=1737907683","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/becoming-america-the-revolution-before-1776-9780674006676","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}