| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.1

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Book Review

Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon: Northern Christians and Market Capitalism, 1815–1860. By Stewart Davenport. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. x, 269 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-226-13706-3.)

Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon, by Stewart Davenport, is a well-written, persuasively argued classification of the economic views of select religious elites. The book does not attempt to unpack the attitudes of most "Northern Christians"; rather, as Davenport states when identifying his methodology: "If I found that an author wrote about both God and mammon in the same document, I read that author's work" (p. 7). Davenport is concerned with these questions: "what did Christians in America think about capitalism when capitalism was first something to be thought about?" (p. 1); "what is the boundary that separates principled from unprincipled economic activity?"; and "where is God in this new and powerful [commercial] machine?" (p. 6).

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