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



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Autore: Valeri Mark R Visualizza persona
Titolo: Heavenly merchandize [[electronic resource] ] : how religion shaped commerce in Puritan America / / Mark Valeri Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2010
Edizione: Core Textbook
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (354 p.)
Disciplina: 261.8/5097409032
Soggetto topico: Puritans - Doctrines - History - 17th century
Puritans - Doctrines - History - 18th century
Puritans - Influence
Business - Religious aspects - Christianity
Soggetto geografico: United States Religion To 1800
Soggetto non controllato: A 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
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Heavenly merchandize  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-56920-1
9786612569203
1-4008-3499-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910781158303321
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