Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
A Shopkeeper's Millennium
A Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837 | Paul E. Johnson
1 post | 1 read
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.
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
Pick icon
100%
blurb
Hollie
post image

Another #greencover #marchintoreading
I have more green covers than I thought, and I'm so blessed to get to work in an office filled with books in all the crannies and all the nooks!

8little_paws I'm interested in why you have that book! 8y
Hollie @8little_paws I'm a history professor so I've got books on all kinds of obscure topics! This one is on the religious revivalism of the "burned over district" of New York around the building of the Erie Canal 8y
8little_paws @hollie oh ok cool!! I grew up there. 8y
Hollie @8little_paws jealous! I love that area! 8y
21 likes4 comments