List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Supplemental Acknowledgments
Part One. Protestants and Public Culture
1. Reverend Pickands, the Bridge War, and the Public Culture
2. The Emerald City of the Lakes
3. The Contests Within the Contest: Defining and Mobilizing the Protestant Community
Part Two. Vying for Power
4. Anointing the Commercial Economy
5. Benevolence and the Establishment of an Ethos of Obligation
6. Temperance: The Cold Water Army Tastes Defeat
7. Cowardly Castles?: Protestant Involvement in Antislavery Debates
8. Rituals of Community Life
Part Three. A Measure of Success
9. A Substantial but Eroding Presence
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index