Religion, Business and Wealth in Modern Britain.

Religion, Business and Wealth in Modern Britain.

This book explores the connections between religion and capitalism in the context of modern Britain, offering a survey of historical controversies within religion and business and a chronology of significant events since the 1770s.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jeremy, David
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, 1998.
Series:Routledge international studies in business history.
Subjects:
1800-1999
Capitalism > Religious aspects > Protestant churches.
Capitalism > Religious aspects > Protestant churches
Economic history
Great Britain > Economic conditions > 19th century.
Great Britain > Economic conditions > 20th century.
Great Britain > Church history > 19th century.
Great Britain > Church history > 20th century.
Great Britain
Church history
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminaries; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Introduction; 1 Christianity, secularisation and political economy; 2 From canon to cannon fire: religion and economics, 1730 ... 1850; 3 Methodism and wealth, 1740 ... 1860; 4 Late-Victorian and Edwardian Methodist businessmen and wealth; 5 The Wiener thesis vindicated; 7 The Society of Friends and business culture, 1700 ... 1830; 8 Changing Quaker attitudes to wealth, 1690 ... 1950; 9 Ethnicity and money making in nineteenth-century Britain; 10 The Weber thesis, ethnic minorities and British entrepreneurship.
  • 11 Ethnicity, religion and wealth: a commentary on the uses of Max WeberIndex.

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