The Burned-Over District: The Social and Intellectual History of Enthusiastic Religion in Western New York, 1800-1850 (Harper Torchbooks, The Academy Library TB 1242N)

xii, 383 pp. [12] "The 'Burned-Over District' was the name given to western New York during the first half of the nineteenth century when the fires of the spirit swept over the area again and again. Religiously speaking, western New York had everything--revivalists, reformers, and prophets; saints, seers and skeptics... Not only was New York 'the storm center' from which radiated religious forces important for the country as a whole; it provides a case history of the westward transit of New England culture and serves as a representative sample of the impact upon religion of the shift from a frontier to a mature agrarian and partially urbanized society..."