A Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837

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 ...