The Age of Atonement: The Influence of Evangelicalism on Social and Economic Thought 1785-1865

by Boyd Hilton

Book Overview

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: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"