RELIGION AND THE RISE OF CAPITALISM A HISTORICAL STUDY

• Main Author: Tawney, R.H (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Harmondoworth, Middleses Penguin 1969
• Subjects: Capitalism; Religions thought > History; Christiarity and economics > History; Great Britain > Social conditions
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 When this book first appeared, it was possible for a friendly reviewer, writing in a serious jounal, to deprecate in all gravity the employment of the term 'Capitalism' in an historical work, as a political catch-word, betraying a sinister intention on the part of the misguided author. An innocent solecism of the kind would not, it is probable, occur so readily today. Obviously, the word Capitalism', like 'Feudalism' and 'Mercantilism', is open to misuse Obviously, the time has now come when it is more important to determine the different species of Capitalism, and the successive phases of its growth, than to continue to labour the existence of the genus. But, after more than half a century of work on the subject by scholars of half a dozen different nationalities and of every variety f political opinion, to deny that the phenomenon exists, or to suggest that if it does exist, it is unique among human institutions, in having, like Melchizedek, existed from eternity, or to imply that, if it has a history propriety forbids that history to be disinterred, is to run wilfully in..