A Shopkeeper's Millennium
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In A Shopkeeper's Millennium, Paul Johnson discusses the Protestant revival that swept through the American Northeast in the earlier part of the nineteenth century. Johnson explores several theories about why the United States experienced this revival in the 1830s, including, in particular, the hypothesis that Americans at the time were insecure and socially fragmented due to increasing industrialization. To focus the exploration, Johnson concentrates his discussion on the revival in Rochester, New York, in 1831. Eventually, he concludes that the revivals in the 1820s and 1830s were tied closely to the growth of a manufacturing economy and were encouraged by the manufacturers to instill an economically beneficial work-ethic into their workers. In his discussion, Johnson maintains that this revival was essentially responsible for forming the bourgeois principles that now identify the middle class. In addition, he c
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