Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; INTRODUCTION: Heavenly Merchandize; CHAPTER ONE: Robert Keayne's Gift; CHAPTER TWO: Robert Keayne's Trials; CHAPTER THREE: John Hull's Accounts; CHAPTER FOUR: Samuel Sewall's Windows; CHAPTER FIVE: Hugh Hall's Scheme; EPILOGUE: Religious Revival; Notes; Index
Summary
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 merchants built a modern form of exchange out of profound transitions in the puritan understanding of discipline, providence, and the meaning of New England. Mark Valeri traces the careers of men like Robert Keayne, a London immigrant punished by his chu
