Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Cambridge University Library Bulletin (extra Series).
Author: Cambridge University LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
The Spirit of French Capitalism
Author: Charly ColemanPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503614832
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
How did the economy become bound up with faith in infinite wealth creation and obsessive consumption? Drawing on the economic writings of eighteenth-century French theologians, historian Charly Coleman uncovers the surprising influence of the Catholic Church on the development of capitalism. Even during the Enlightenment, a sense of the miraculous did not wither under the cold light of calculation. Scarcity, long regarded as the inescapable fate of a fallen world, gradually gave way to a new belief in heavenly as well as worldly affluence. Animating this spiritual imperative of the French economy was a distinctly Catholic ethic that—in contrast to Weber's famous "Protestant ethic"—privileged the marvelous over the mundane, consumption over production, and the pleasures of enjoyment over the rigors of delayed gratification. By viewing money, luxury, and debt through the lens of sacramental theory, Coleman demonstrates that the modern economy casts far beyond rational action and disenchanted designs, and in ways that we have yet to apprehend fully.
Catalogue of Biblical, Classical and Historical Manuscripts and of Rare and Curious Books (etc.)
Author: William PickeringPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Catalogue of Biblical, classical and historical manuscripts and of rare and curious books ... on sale by William Pickering
Author: William Pickering (Publisher.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
General catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed booksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
The British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books, 1881-1900
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 986
Book Description
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British LibraryGeneral Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1232
Book Description