{"id":544052,"date":"2010-03-08T11:45:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T15:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341d17e553ef0120a914d607970b"},"modified":"2010-03-08T11:45:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T15:45:15","slug":"moreton-wins-frederick-jackson-turner-award-for-to-serve-god-and-wal-mart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/544052","title":{"rendered":"Moreton wins Frederick Jackson Turner award for To Serve God and Wal-Mart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harvardpress.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341d17e553ef0120a914d1b4970b-pi\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Moreton\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341d17e553ef0120a914d1b4970b \" src=\"http:\/\/harvardpress.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341d17e553ef0120a914d1b4970b-800wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 5px 20px;\" title=\"Moreton\"><\/img><\/a> Great news &#8212; UGA historian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uga.edu\/iws\/directory\/moreton.htm\" >Bethany Moreton<\/a> has won the<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oah.org\/activities\/awards\/turner\/index.html\" >Frederick Jackson Turner Award<\/a> for her HUP book <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/catalog\/MOREVE.html\" >To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (reviews: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookforum.com\/inprint\/016_02\/3848\" >Bookforum<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/02\/books\/review\/Frank-t.html\" >NYTBR<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebigmoney.com\/articles\/judgments\/2009\/06\/22\/church-wal-mart\" >The Big Money<\/a><\/em>). The award is given each year by the Organization of American Historians for the best first book on a significant phase of American history. In investigating the complex network that gave rise to the giant we know as Wal-Mart &#8212; on that united Sun Belt entrepreneurs, evangelical<br \/>\nemployees, Christian business students, overseas missionaries, and<br \/>\nfree-market activists &#8212; Moreton&#8217;s book uncovers the roots of the &quot;Christian service&quot; ethos that has increasingly powered capitalism at home and abroad. Moreton will accept the award at the <a href=\"http:\/\/meetings.oah.org\/\" >2010 OAH meeting<\/a> in Washington DC on April 10. <\/p>\n<p>||| Read Bethany Moreton&#8217;s essay <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/essays\/bethanymoreton.html\" >&quot;Culture War on Aisle 5? Wal-Mart, Evangelicals, and &#8216;Extreme Capitalism&#8217;&quot;<\/a> at Powells.com.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" xmlns:xhtml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/typepad\/budandflora\/hup_publicity\/~4\/9ifNPPo0jmk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><\/img><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great news &#8212; UGA historian Bethany Moreton has won the Frederick Jackson Turner Award for her HUP book To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise (reviews: Bookforum, NYTBR, The Big Money). The award is given each year by the Organization of American Historians for the best first book on a significant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6896,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6896"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}