{"product_id":"the-burnedover-district-9780801492327","title":"The Burnedover District","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the first half of the nineteenth century the wooded hills and the valleys of western New York State were swept by fires of the spirit. The fervent religiosity of the region caused historians to call it the \"burned-over...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCross has given us by far our best record of a famous chapter in the history of American religion.\u003c\/p\u003e * Church History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe remarkable flowering of spiritual activity in the 'burned-over district' has long puzzled historians; but until this book never received full-length treatment. Cross roamed the archives and manuscript repositories of western New York; he went through the files of obscure country newspapers and forgotten religious magazines; and the result of his patient and exact research is a major contribution to American social and intellectual history. He has drawn the social background of the burned-over district in rich detail and amplitude. Moving out of this background, he can bring revivalism, Mormonism, and the other new sects into fresh and enlightening perspective. His comments on Joseph Smith, on Mormonism and the frontier, on the development of Finney's theology, on the entry of Swedenborgianism as a catch-all for the ultraist faiths, and on the vagaries of spiritualism are the product of sharp insight and steady judgment.... Cross has written an indispensable chapter in our intellectual history.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. * The Nation *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe title of this volume would lead the reader to believe that only a microcosmic study of nineteenth-century religion in upper New York had been covered. However, it soon becomes evident that the scope of the book is much wider. It is an intensive study of the social, cultural, economic, political, and ideological causations of the great religious upheavals of the time and their far-reaching effects upon American culture.\u003c\/p\u003e * Pennsylvania History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is an excellent piece of social historical writing.\u003c\/p\u003e * American Journal of Sociology *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis tour through the psychological highways and byways of enthusiastic religion is richly rewarding.\u003c\/p\u003e * Mississippi Valley Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e List of Maps\u003cb\u003eBOOK I. ORIGINS: 1800–1825\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. The Great Revival\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Yankee Benevolence\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Premonitions\u003cb\u003eBOOK II. ENVIRONMENT: 1825–1850\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Canal Days\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Social Patterns\u003cb\u003eBOOK III. PORTENTS: 1825–1831\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. The Martyr\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Yorker Benevolence\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. The Prophet\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. The Evangelist\u003cb\u003eBOOK IV. GENESIS OF ULTRAISM: 1826–1837\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10. New Measures\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11. New Men\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12. New Ideas\u003cb\u003eBOOK V. HARVEST: 1830–1845\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 13. A Moral Reformation\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 14. Perfect Sanctification\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 15. Schism\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 16. The Pattern of Dispersing Ultraism\u003cb\u003eBOOK VI. AFTERMATH: 1840–1850\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 17. The End of the World\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 18. Utopia Now\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 19. World without End\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 20. The Passing Era\u003ci\u003eAppendix. Notes on Maps\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MB - Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51456009765207,"sku":"9780801492327","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801492327.jpg?v=1755033422","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-burnedover-district-9780801492327","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}