Faith in Markets - Christian Capitalism in the Early American Republic

Faith in Markets offers a new account of the interplay between religion and capitalism in nineteenth-century American history by telling the stories of the Protestant entrepreneurs who established businesses to serve as agents of cultural and economic reform.

List of contents

Introduction: Early Nineteenth-Century Capitalism and Religion
Part I: Christian Communal Capitalism
1. Communal Industry: Harmonie, Pennsylvania
2. Industry on the Frontier: Harmonie, Indiana
3. Republican Industry: Economie, Pennsylvania
Part II: Christian Reform Capitalism
4. The Sabbatarians
5. The Pioneers
6. Conflict, Defeat, and Victory
Part III: Christian Virtue Capitalism
7. Methodist Printer-Publishers
8. Creating a Moral Republic
9. Fostering an American Protestant Identity
Conclusion: Morality and Markets, Then and Now
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Joseph P. Slaughter is assistant professor of history at Wesleyan University.

Summary

Faith in Markets offers a new account of the interplay between religion and capitalism in nineteenth-century American history by telling the stories of the Protestant entrepreneurs who established businesses to serve as agents of cultural and economic reform.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph P. Slaughter
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.10.2023
• EAN: 9780231191111
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19111-1
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; USA, RELIGION / Christianity / Protestant, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Economic history, United States of America, USA, Protestantism & Protestant Churches, Protestantism and Protestant Churches, business & economics; history; religion