Faith in Markets offers a new account of the interplay between religion and capitalism in nineteenth-century American history by telling the stories of the Protestant entrepreneurs who established businesses to serve as agents of cultural and economic reform.

Introduction: Early Nineteenth-Century Capitalism and Religion
Part I: Christian Communal Capitalism
1. Communal Industry: Harmonie, Pennsylvania
2. Industry on the Frontier: Harmonie, Indiana
3. Republican Industry: Economie, Pennsylvania
Part II: Christian Reform Capitalism
4. The Sabbatarians
5. The Pioneers
6. Conflict, Defeat, and Victory
Part III: Christian Virtue Capitalism
7. Methodist Printer-Publishers
8. Creating a Moral Republic
9. Fostering an American Protestant Identity
Conclusion: Morality and Markets, Then and Now
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Joseph P. Slaughter is assistant professor of history at Wesleyan University.