John Wesley's Nova Scotia businessmen
Subtitle: Halifax Methodist merchants, 1815-1855
By: Allen B. Robertson.
Series: American university studies.; v. 163
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
Subjects: Methodists -- Nova Scotia -- Halifax -- History -- 19th century.; Merchants -- Nova Scotia -- Halifax -- History -- 19th century.; Methodist Church -- Nova Scotia -- Halifax -- History -- 19th century.; Halifax (N.S.) -- Church history -- 19th century.
Description: "The depiction of Wesleyan Methodists in nineteenth-century eastern British America as politically passive is seriously challenged in this analysis of Halifax's merchant community. Wesleyan businessmen's leadership wielded influence in education, economics, and politics. They remolded directives from the parent English Methodist Conference to suit colonial realities. The result was an attempt to balance evangelicalism and capitalist pursuits. In this study, collective biography reveals the inner workings of that dynamic second- and third-generation merchant network."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.