Creating the Commonwealth The Economic Culture of Puritan New England

"Concentrating on Massachusetts, the oldest New England colony, Stephen Innes's 'Creating the Commonwealth' provides the first comprehensive modern study of the economic culture of early New England. By the term 'economic culture' he means to imply both economic behavior and the ideas and values that informed that behavior....he positively shows that New Englanders intended from the start to make Massachusetts, not just a godly, but a 'flourishing and productive society'. In the process, he offers a formidable challenge to those historians who have contended that its settlers were anti-capitalist and that Puritan theology was incompatible with a market orientation."Innes, Stephen is the author of 'Creating the Commonwealth The Economic Culture of Puritan New England' with ISBN 9780393035841 and ISBN 0393035840.