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Becoming America : the revolution before 1776 /
"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 co...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2000.
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| Colección: | ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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." |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 324 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-311) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0674000919 9780674000919 9780674253230 067425323X |