Heavenly Merchandize: How Religion Shaped Commerce in Puritan America

by Mark Valeri (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2010

  $49.77

  Examines the religion's role in the creation of a market economy in early America. Focusing on the economic culture of New England, this title views commerce through the eyes of Boston merchants and reveals how merchants built a modern form of exchange out of the transitions in the puritan understanding of the meaning of New England.