Heavenly Merchandize How Religion Shaped Commerce in Puritan America |
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| Author:
| Valeri, Mark |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-16217-1 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2014 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $29.95 |
Book Description:
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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 merc
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 merc