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Church and Estate:

Religion and Wealth in Industrial-Era Philadelphia
  • ISBN-13: 9780271059686
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Thomas F. Rzeznik
  • Price: AUD $71.99
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 03/01/2013
  • Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 304 pages Weight: 450g
  • Categories: History of the Americas [HBJK]
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Examines the lives and religious commitments of the Philadelphia elite during the period of industrial prosperity that extended from the late nineteenth century through the 1920s.


Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 “Money Faithfully and Judiciously Expended”

2 A Controlling “Interest”

3 A Labor “Exceedingly Magnificent”

4 The “Quaker-Turned-Episcopal Gentry”

5 The Episcopal Ascendancy

6 Confronting the “Money Interests”

7 Changing Fortunes

Conclusion: Legacies

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“A richly documented study of religion and wealth in which Philadelphia’s leading citizens appear not as ‘robber barons,’ but rather as complex moral actors. . . . Essential reading for anyone interested in the vital intersection of religion and capitalism in modern American history.”

—Heath W. Carter, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

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