| A Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837 Anniversary Edition Contributor(s): Johnson, Paul E. (Author), Johnson, Paul E. (Preface by) |
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ISBN: 0809016354 ISBN-13: 9780809016358 Publisher: Hill & Wang OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2004 Annotation: A quarter-century after its first publication, "A Shopkeeper's Millennium" remains a landmark work--brilliant both as a new interpretation of the intimate connections among politics, economy, and religion during the Second Great Awakening, and as a surprising portrait of a rapidly growing frontier city. The religious revival that transformed America in the 1820s, making it the most militantly Protestant nation on earth and spawning reform movements dedicated to temperance and to the abolition of slavery, had an especially powerful effect in Rochester, New York. Paul E. Johnson explores the reasons for the revival's spectacular success there, suggesting important links between its moral accounting and the city's new industrial world. In a new preface, he reassesses his evidence and his conclusions in this major work. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - History - Religion | Christianity - Protestant - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 269.240 |
| LCCN: 2004103268 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.6" W x 8.26" (0.50 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Geographic Orientation - New York - Locality - Rochester, N.Y. - Religious Orientation - Christian - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic |
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| Publisher Description: A quarter-century after its first publication, A Shopkeeper's Millennium remains a landmark work--brilliant both as a new interpretation of the intimate connections among politics, economy, and religion during the Second Great Awakening, and as a surprising portrait of a rapidly growing frontier city. The religious revival that transformed America in the 1820s, making it the most militantly Protestant nation on earth and spawning reform movements dedicated to temperance and to the abolition of slavery, had an especially powerful effect in Rochester, New York. Paul E. Johnson explores the reasons for the revival's spectacular success there, suggesting important links between its moral accounting and the city's new industrial world. In a new preface, he reassesses his evidence and his conclusions in this major work. |
Contributor Bio(s): Johnson, Paul E.: - Paul E. Johnson, professor of history at the University of South Carolina, is the author of A Shopkeeper's Millennium, Sam Patch, the Famous Jumper and coauthor, with Sean Wilentz, of The Kingdom of Matthias. He lives in Columbia, South Carolina, and Onancock, Virginia. |