History at the University of Texas at Austin and one of the university's Andrew W. He lives in Columbia, South Carolina, and Onancock, Virginia.Ĭhris Babits is a Ph.D. He is the author of A Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837, Sam Patch, the Famous Jumper, and coauthor, with Sean Wilentz, of The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America. He taught at Princeton University, Yale University, University of Utah, and the University of South Carolina. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and from the University of California, Los Angeles, with a Ph.D. Johnson, professor emeritus of history at the University of South Carolina.
Johnson explores the reasons for the revival's spectacular success there, suggesting important links between its moral accounting and the city's new industrial world. See More movements dedicated to temperance and to the abolition of slavery, had an especially powerful effect in Rochester, New York. The religious revival that transformed America in the 1820s, making it the most militantly Protestant nation on earth and spawning reform Both in substantive conclusions and as a model for future regional studies, A Shopkeeper's Millennium is one of the freshest and most exciting books I have read in the past few years.A quarter-century after its first publication, A Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837 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. No less important, Professor Johnson has brilliantly fused the quantitative methods of the 'new social history' with a sparkling style and an imaginative reconstruction of social reality. “Johnson's book is indispensable for any understanding of the evangelical revival and related reform movements in New York's 'burned-over' district.
It is a brilliant pioneering assault upon the most important unaddressed problem in American historiography-how our society and very personalities were transformed by the rapid advance of the capitalist market in the earlier nineteenth century.” - Charles Sellers, University of California, Berkeley “This is far more than a study of local history, and more even than a provocative interpretation of the social sources of religious revivalism.
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