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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456331703321

Autore

Valeri Mark R

Titolo

Heavenly merchandize [[electronic resource] ] : how religion shaped commerce in Puritan America / / Mark Valeri

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2010

ISBN

1-282-56920-1

9786612569203

1-4008-3499-6

Edizione

[Core Textbook]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (354 p.)

Disciplina

261.8/5097409032

Soggetti

Puritans - Doctrines - History - 17th century

Puritans - Doctrines - History - 18th century

Puritans - Influence

Business - Religious aspects - Christianity

Electronic books.

United States Religion To 1800

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction. Heavenly Merchandize -- CHAPTER ONE. Robert Keayne's Gift -- CHAPTER TWO. Robert Keayne's Trials -- CHAPTER THREE. John Hull's Accounts -- CHAPTER FOUR. Samuel Sewall's Windows -- CHAPTER FIVE. Hugh Hall's Scheme -- EPILOGUE. Religious Revival -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Heavenly Merchandize offers a critical reexamination of religion's role in the creation of a market economy in early America. Focusing on the economic culture of New England, it views commerce through the eyes of four generations of Boston merchants, drawing upon their personal letters, diaries, business records, and sermon notes to reveal how merchants built a modern form of exchange out of profound transitions in the puritan understanding of discipline, providence, and the meaning of New England. Mark Valeri traces the careers of men like Robert Keayne, a London immigrant punished by his church for aggressive business practices; John Hull, a silversmith-turned-trader who helped



to establish commercial networks in the West Indies; and Hugh Hall, one of New England's first slave traders. He explores how Boston ministers reconstituted their moral languages over the course of a century, from a scriptural discourse against many market practices to a providential worldview that justified England's commercial hegemony and legitimated the market as a divine construct. Valeri moves beyond simplistic readings that reduce commercial activity to secular mind-sets, and refutes the popular notion of an inherent affinity between puritanism and capitalism. He shows how changing ideas about what it meant to be pious and puritan informed the business practices of Boston's merchants, who filled their private notebooks with meditations on scripture and the natural order, founded and led churches, and inscribed spiritual reflections in their letters and diaries. Unprecedented in scope and rich with insights, Heavenly Merchandize illuminates the history behind the continuing American dilemma over morality and the marketplace.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910496046303321

Autore

Langue Frédérique

Titolo

Mines, terres et société à Zacatecas (Mexique) de la fin du xviie siècle à l’indépendance / / Frédérique Langue

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris, : Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2020

ISBN

979-1-03-510462-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (446 p.)

Collana

Histoire moderne

Altri autori (Persone)

ChevalierFrançois

Soggetti

Mineral industries - Mexico - Zacatecas (State) - History

Mineral industries - Social aspects - Mexico - Zacatecas (State)

Mines - Industrie - Mexique - Zacatecas (Etat) - Histoire - 17e siècle

Haciendas - Mexique - Zacatecas (Etat) - Histoire - 17e siècle

Patronage politique - Mexique - Zacatecas (Etat) - Histoire - 17e siècle

Zacatecas (Mexico : State) Social conditions

Zacatecas (Mexique ; Etat) Conditions sociales Histoire 17e siècle

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Sommario/riassunto

Célèbre pour ses mines d’argent, la région de Zacatecas connaît à partir de la fin du xviie siècle un renouveau de ses activités économiques. Une dynamique sociale originale accompagne cette reprise minière exceptionnelle : celle de l’immigrant espagnol, hidalgo parfois désargenté, venu en Nouvelle- Espagne sans autre bagage que son ambition voire ses relations familiales, qui s’enrichit, devient un grand propriétaire terrien et va jusqu’à acquérir un titre de noblesse.  F. Langue analyse ces relations entre la conjoncture de l’exploitation minière et l’évolution sociale. Elle met en valeur la dualité des personnages qui tirent profit de la situation : ils sont modernes du point de vue économique, et peuvent être rapprochés de l’“entrepreneur” au sens de J.-B. Say mais ils se caractérisent aussi sur le plan social par des comportements que l’on peut qualifier de “seigneuriaux” (liens personnels, systèmes de clientèles). Et il n’est pas surprenant de constater que le type social ainsi créé perdure tout au long du dix-neuvième siècle mexicain, constituant ainsi un exemple d’inscription de mentalités dans la longue durée.