07542nam 2201945Ia 450 991081503930332120230725045044.01-282-56920-197866125692031-4008-3499-610.1515/9781400834990(CKB)2550000000012490(EBL)537714(SSID)ssj0000419464(PQKBManifestationID)11327350(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000419464(PQKBWorkID)10384024(PQKB)10753259(MiAaPQ)EBC537714(MdBmJHUP)muse43094(EEBO)2240857627(OCoLC)ocn297426207e(OCoLC)297426207(DE-B1597)453717(OCoLC)979954319(DE-B1597)9781400834990(Au-PeEL)EBL537714(CaPaEBR)ebr10386047(CaONFJC)MIL256920(OCoLC)638860616(EXLCZ)99255000000001249020090929d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHeavenly merchandize[electronic resource] how religion shaped commerce in Puritan America /Mark ValeriCore TextbookPrinceton Princeton University Pressc20101 online resource (354 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-691-16217-4 0-691-14359-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 -- IndexHeavenly 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.PuritansDoctrinesHistory17th centuryPuritansDoctrinesHistory18th centuryPuritansInfluenceBusinessReligious aspectsChristianityUnited StatesReligionTo 1800A Model of Christian Charity.American Antiquarian Society.American Enlightenment.Anne Hutchinson.Antinomian Controversy.Antinomianism.Apologetics.Atlantic World.Bill of credit.Boyle Lectures.Brattle Street (Cambridge, Massachusetts).Calvinism.Censure.Charles Chauncy.Christian Identity.Christian fundamentalism.Christian socialism.Commodity.Cotton Mather.Creditor.Currency Act.Currency.Customer.Daniel Defoe.Debtor.Deism.Divine right of kings.Economics.Economy and Society.Edward Hutchinson (captain).England.Excommunication.Fraud.Geneva Bible.God.Heinrich Bullinger.Heresy.Increase Mather.Jeremiad.John Calvin.John Coggeshall.John Colet.John Wheelwright.John Winthrop.Joseph Addison.Joseph Dudley.Joshua Scottow.King Philip's War.Lecture.Loyalty.Massachusetts Historical Society.Max Weber.Mercantilism.Merchant.Moral economy.Nathaniel Ward.Navigation Acts.New England.Nicholas Barbon.Old South Church.Old South.On Religion.Peter Bulkley.Peter Pelham.Piety.Political economy.Poor relief.Popular sovereignty.Protestant work ethic.Protestantism.Public expenditure.Puritans.Religion.Robert Cushman.Samuel Sewall.Samuel Willard.Secularism.Secularization.Sensibility.Simon Bradstreet.Slavery.Society of Jesus.South Sea Company.Tax.The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.The Wealth and Poverty of Nations.Theology.Thomas Hooker.Thomas Mun.Thomas Sprat.Treatise.Usury.Warfare.Wealth.William Ames.William Petty.William Phips.William Pynchon.William Whiston.Workhouse.PuritansDoctrinesHistoryPuritansDoctrinesHistoryPuritansInfluence.BusinessReligious aspectsChristianity.261.8/5097409032Valeri Mark R1648892MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815039303321Heavenly merchandize4001519UNINA