The Memoir of John Mason Peck contains an extensive, firsthand, and often detailed pre-sociological” account of pioneer life as reported by this remarkably systematic and disciplined observer. John Mason Peck (1789 1857), a pioneer Baptist missionary to the Illinois territory, was one of the most active as well as influential men on the Illinois frontier. He left fifty-three volumes of journals and diaries with the request that Rufus Babcock edit and publish them. Babcock completed this task in 1864, and deposited the journals in the Mercantile Library in St. Louis, where they were misplaced and irretrievably lost during the Civil War.
Peck founded numerous educational and religious organizations, in part because he believed that they would provide the foundation for the new civilization and the basis for the fulfillment of American destiny in the world. The Memoir offers perceptive accounts of the economy and politics of the formation of religious and secular organizations on the frontier. The book gives fascinating reports on the development of institutions in a period of unprecedented social change.
Paul Harrison, the current editor, has written a full introduction and interpretation of the life and work of John Mason Peck. He includes in his Introduction many extensive quotations from
Peck’s other works, the material of which is not available in the Memoir itself.
This new edition makes available again a book of great importance to sociologists, theologians, and historians.
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Paul M. Harrison is Associate Professor of Religion at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Authority and Power in the Free Church Tradition: A Social Case Study of the American Baptist Convention.
The reappearance of the Memoir of John Mason Peck . . . after being out of print for nearly a century is a noteworthy event, indeed. Students of sociology and theology, but most of all historians, will welcome its return, and they will all be deeply indebted to the Press of Southern Illinois University for republishing it. . . . One of the sparkling features of this editorial and publishing effort is the masterful sixty-eight-page introduction by Dr. Paul M. Harrison.” The Catholic Historical Review
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