While Brown considers the revolution the tipping point towards modernization, Murrin and Berthoff are pragmatic when evaluating the effects of the conflict on the development of America’s social structure. They are willing to declare that the revolution ended two elements of traditional English society in the colonies; specifically the feudal revival within the proprietary colonies and communalism as practice in New England. However, it also gave rise to a third traditional element, an iconic image of the yeoman freeholder. (Murrin and Berthoff,
While Brown considers the revolution the tipping point towards modernization, Murrin and Berthoff are pragmatic when evaluating the effects of the conflict on the development of America’s social structure. They are willing to declare that the revolution ended two elements of traditional English society in the colonies; specifically the feudal revival within the proprietary colonies and communalism as practice in New England. However, it also gave rise to a third traditional element, an iconic image of the yeoman freeholder. (Murrin and Berthoff,