A Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837 (American Century Series)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780809086542 (0809086549)
Publish date: January 1st 1978
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Pages no: 210
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Read For School,
American,
Religion,
American History,
19th Century,
Labor
Johnson contrasts a tightly-knit world of extended, kinship-based business connections, in which “ungoverned ambition was a fatal liability,” with a rapidly growing “unstable urban population.” The Second Great Awakening’s evangelism in Rochester, he says, was primarily about social control.
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