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Heavenly Merchandize: How Religion Shaped Commerce in Puritan America, 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 merchant, Heavenly Merchandize: How Religion Shaped Commerce in Puritan America
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  • Heavenly Merchandize: How Religion Shaped Commerce in Puritan America
  • Written by author Valeri, Mark R
  • Published by Princeton University Press, 2010
  • 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 merchant
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List of Illustrations ix

Preface xi

INTRODUCTION: Heavenly Merchandize 1

CHAPTER ONE: Robert Keayne's Gift 11

Keayne, the Merchant Taylors' Company, and Civic Humanism 14

Keayne and the Godly Community in England 26

CHAPTER TWO: Robert Keayne's Trials 37

Boston's First Merchants 39

Puritan Discipline in England 50

Discipline and Trade in Early Boston 57

CHAPTER THREE: John Hull's Accounts 74

Hull and the Expansion of New England's Market 76

Hull's Piety and Changes in Church Discipline 83

Jeremiads, Providence, and New England's Civic Order 96

CHAPTER FOUR: Samuel Sewall's Windows 111

Sewall's and Fitch's Problems with Money 114

The Politics of Empire 122

Political Economy, Monetary Policy, and the Justification of Usury 134

Merchants' Callings and the Campaign for Moral Reform 157

Religious Conviction in the Affairs of Sewall and Fitch 168

CHAPTER FIVE: Hugh Hall's Scheme 178

Hall and Boston's Provincial Merchants 181

Rational Protestantism and the Meaning of Commerce 200

Gentility, the Empire, and Piety in the Affairs of Hall 220

EPILOGUE: Religious Revival 234

Samuel Philips Savage, Isaac Smith, and Robert Treat Paine 235

Social Virtue and the Market 240

Conclusion 248

Notes 251

Index 321


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