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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Mark A Noll |
| ISBN: | 0195148002 9780195148008 0195148010 9780195148015 |
| OCLC Number: | 46240340 |
| Description: | xii, 313 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Protestants and the American economy in the postcolonial period: an overview / Robin Klay, John Lunn -- Charles Sellers, the market revolution, and the shaping of identity in Whig-Jacksonian America / Daniel Walker Howe -- Charles Seller's "Antinomians" and "Arminians": Methodists and the market revolution / Richard Carwardine -- E.P. Thompson and Methodism / David Hempton, John Walsh -- A tale of preachers and beggars: Methodism and money in the great age of transatlantic expansion, 1780-1830 / David Hempton -- Benevolent capital: financing Evangelical book publishing in early nineteenth-century America / David Paul Nord -- Philadelphia Presbyterians, capitalism, and the morality of economic success / Richard W. Pointer -- Trauma in Methodism: property, church schism, and sectional polarization in antebellum America / Richard Carwardine -- "A mere calculation of profits and loss": the southern clergy and the economic culture of the antebellum north / Kenneth Startup -- "Turning ... piety into hard cash": the marketing of nineteenth-century revivalism / Kathryn T. Long -- Protestant reasoning about money and the economy, 1790-1860: a preliminary probe / Mark A. Noll. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Mark A. Noll. |
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This book contains a wealth of information and interpretation, and is carefully documented with a host of references. The volume demonstrates that the religious beliefs and commitments of historical actors should be taken seriously when attempting to explain their actions. EH.Net Book Review This book connects religious history and business history in important and constructive ways. Business History Review The book serves as a useful compendium of recent research on evangelicalism and the market in which sensitivity to religion itself has become much more marked. The Journal of American History Read more...
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