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Religion, business, and wealth in modern Britain /
The connections between religion and capitalism have intrigued and challenged policy-makers, pressure groups, theologians, sociologists, economists and historians for centuries. Should economics be subordinate to morality and the ethics of religion? Has Protestantism been conducive to capitalism? Ho...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1998.
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| Colección: | Routledge international studies in business history ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Chapter Introduction Debates about interactions between religion, business, and wealth in modern Britain / David J. Jeremy
- part Part I The relationship between religion and political economy
- chapter 1 Christianity, secularisation and political economy / B.W. Young
- chapter 2 From canon to cannon fire: Religion and economics, 1730-1850 / Boyd Hilton
- part Part II Nonconformists and wealth
- chapter 3 Methodism and wealth, 1740-1860 / W.R. Ward
- chapter 4 Late-Victorian and Edwardian Methodist businessmen and wealth / David J. Jeremy
- chapter 5 The Wiener thesis vindicated: the onslaught of 1994 upon the reputation of John Rylands of Manchester / Douglas A. Farnie
- chapter 6 Max Weber, religion and the work ethic / Patrick K. O'Brien
- part Part III Quakers and wealth
- chapter 7 The Society of Friends and business culture, 1700-1830 / Ann Prior
- chapter 8 Changing Quaker attitudes to wealth, 1690-1950 / T.A.B. Corley
- part Part IV Ethnicity, religion and wealth
- chapter 9 Ethnicity and money making in nineteenth-century Britain / Stanley Chapman
- chapter 10 The Weber thesis, ethnic minorities and British entrepreneurship / W.D. Rubinstein
- chapter 11 Ethnicity, religion and wealth: a commentary on the uses of Max Weber / Chris Waters.