The Age of Atonement: The Influence of Evangelicalism on Social and Economic Thought 1785-1865
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In this study of the British upper and middle classes during the first half of the 19th century, Boyd Hilton reveals that the people of this age were obsessed with catastrophe: wars, famines, pestilences, revolutions, floods, volcanoes, and the great commercial upheavals which periodically threatened to topple the world's first capitalist system. The dominant evangelical sentiment of the day interpreted such sufferings as part of God's plan and, not...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0198201079
ISBN13:9780198201076
Release Date:May 1988
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Length:420 Pages
Weight:1.87 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"
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Cultural History Language Arts Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Social Science Social SciencesCustomer Reviews
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