Heavenly Merchandize: How Religion Shaped Commerce in Puritan America Hardcover - 2010
by Mark Valeri
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"Heavenly Merchandize is a compelling original exploration of moral conviction and commercial culture in early New England. Boldly challenging the view that the demise of piety was a condition for the rise of opportunistic market behavior, Valeri finds that New England's ministers and merchants were neither traditionalists eclipsed by a secularizing Atlantic world nor easy protocapitalists rushing into modernity. He discloses a commercial community that was intent upon righteous trading and pious living."--Cathy Matson, University of Delaware
"Heavenly Merchandize is a magisterial account of the interplay of economics and religion in early America. In place of abstract theories of 'modernization' or 'the spirit of capitalism, ' Valeri engages representative figures on the ground, and through their stories narrates the ways in which transformations in religious thought actually shaped a premodern market culture. Students of early American religion, economics, and imperialism will have to consult this seminal work."--Harry S. Stout, Yale University
"Heavenly Merchandize treats the interconnected transformations of theology and the market in New England from earliest settlement in the 1620s to the mid-eighteenth century. The brilliance of Valeri's presentation is that he grounds it in the biographies and extensive testimonies of Boston merchants. In thoroughness, depth, scope, and significance, I rank this among a very elite group of truly seminal books."--Mark A. Noll, University of Notre Dame
"An important and powerfully argued narrative. This work is large in scope and ambition. It assesses more than a century of change in the complex relationship between religious beliefs, practices, and disciplinary standards and the evolution of commercial and market behavior in colonial New England. Valeri takes his subject head-on and in full, knowing the pitfalls and the controversies that lie along the path."--Mark Peterson, University of California, Berkeley
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- Title Heavenly Merchandize: How Religion Shaped Commerce in Puritan America
- Author Mark Valeri
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition [ Edition: First
- Pages 360
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press
- Date 2010-07-21
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780691143590 / 0691143595
- Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
- Dimensions 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.3 in (23.62 x 16.00 x 3.30 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 17th Century
- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Cultural Region: New England
- Geographic Orientation: Massachusetts
- Locality: Boston-Worcester, Mass.
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Library of Congress subjects Business - Religious aspects - Christianity, United States - Religion - To 1800
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009039606
- Dewey Decimal Code 261.850
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Citations
- Books & Culture, 11/01/2010, Page 27
- Choice, 12/01/2010, Page 0
- Christian Century, 10/17/2012, Page 34
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