A Shopkeeper's Millennium

This landmark social history exploring politics, economy, and religion in nineteenth-century upstate New York is “one of the best” of its kind ( Wilson Quarterly ). Decades after its first publication, A Shopkeeper’s Millennium remains a landmark work—brilliant both as a new interpretation of the intimate connections among politics, economy, and religion during the Second Great Awakening, and as a surprising portrait of a rapidly growing frontier city. The religious revival that transformed Amer