![]() ![]() ![]() 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 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. ![]()
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