RELIGION AND THE RISE OF CAPITALISM - A HISTORICAL STUDY (Holland Memorial Lectures, 1922) by Richard Henry Tawney appears to have been first published in 1926 and more recently (ISBN: 1443723738) in 2008.
The Mentor Book paperback study edition offered here bears a 1954 copyright and was printed in 1963. This study copy has a tight spine, a worn cover (front corner chipped & back corner stained), previous owner's label, browning pages & markings.
According to the Publisher:
In one of the classics of twentieth-century political economy, R. H. Tawney addresses the question of how religion has affected social and economic practices. He does this by a relentless tracking of the influence of religious thought on capitalist economy and ideology since the Middle Ages. In so doing he sheds light on why Christianity continues to exert a unique role in the marketplace. In so doing, the book offers an incisive analysis of the historical background of present morals and mores in Western culture.
Richard Henry Tawney (1880 - 1962) was an English writer, economist, historian, social critic and university professor and a leading advocate of Christian Socialism.
Contents
Introduction
Preface to the 1937 Edition
I The Medieval Background
The Social Organism
The Sin of Avarice
The Ideal and the Reality
II The Continental Reformers
The Economic Revolution
Luther
Calvin
III The Church of England
The Land Question
Religious Theory and Social Policy
The Growth of Individualism
IV The Puritan Movement
Puritanism and Society
A Godly Discipline versus the Religion of Trade
The Triumph of the Economic Virtues
The New Medicine for Poverty
V Conclusion
Notes
Index
