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1 online resource : text file, PDF |
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Routledge Studies in Modern History |
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Routledge studies in modern history.
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Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part 1 Predation, purification, and prices; Prologue: Fire; Note; Chapter 1 Idealism and materialism in economic history; Janus; Weber and Marx; Definitions; Three forms of purification: ritual, ethical, and political; Notes; Chapter 2 Axial thought traditions: From heroic myth to social control; Religion of hunters and gatherers; After the Neolithic revolution: predation, trade and gift exchange; Chiefdoms; Heroic Age |
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The masking principleReligious diversity; Notes; Chapter 3 The pendulum swing in the Greek Axial Age; Origins; The political pendulum swing; The pendulum swing in Greek drama; The pendulum swing in philosophy; Notes; Chapter 4 God as king in Jewish monotheism; Kings, priests, and prophets; Diaspora communities under one God; Out of the Dead Sea Scrolls; Notes; Chapter 5 Predation, gift exchange, and markets in the Roman Empire; Predation and empire building in the ancient world; An ideological pendulum swing; Notes; Chapter 6 One God, one emperor; More political pendulum swings |
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Dominus and DeusThe Council of Nicaea; After Constantine the Great; â#x80;#x9C;The City of God and the City of the Worldâ#x80;#x9D;; Notes; Part 2 Merchant capitalism; Chapter 7 Islamic merchant capitalism; Consolidating Catholicism and feudalism: The great pendulum swing of early medieval Europe; The Silk Road; The rise of Islam; The bill of exchange; Notes; Chapter 8 The pendulum swings of the High and Late Medieval West; The pendulum swing of the High Medieval Period: simony and the Crusades |
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The pendulum swing of the Late Medieval Period: merchant capitalism versus feudalism, Catholic Church inquisition versus Neo-Donatist sectarianism, Scholasticism versus alchemyScholasticism; The Hermetic tradition; Notes; Chapter 9 Mercantilism and the pendulum swing; Mercantilism; Guilds; Patronage; Patents; Predation; Notes; Chapter 10 Japanese merchant capitalism; The Japanese pendulum swing; Merchant houses; Notes; Part 3 Technological capitalism; Chapter 11 The pendulum swing in natural philosophy; Technological capitalism; Natural philosophy; Measuring time; Attacking Scholasticism |
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Newton versus DescartesThe pendulum swing in the first Industrial Revolution: scientific ideas and material forces conjoined; From inorganic to organic chemistry; Notes; Chapter 12 Nationalism and imperialism; Enlightenment struggles; The spread of the nationâ#x80;#x93;state system; Moderate enlightenment, radical enlightenment and counter-enlightenment; Debates within liberal nationalism; Counter-enlightenment and religious nationalism; Technological capitalism versus merchant capitalism; Predatory imperialism; Notes; Part 4 Implications |
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"Purity condemns filth; piety disparages corruption. Amassing riches offered to a transcendental world, the priests of ancient faiths found themselves trapped in contradiction. Loan out their resources to merchants: make yourself a pariah to true prophets. Before Islam squared the circle, bringing capital mobility enhancing credit creation into coexistence with devotion, religion stymied merchant capitalism. Spread through trade, Islam's innovations in commerce soothed the path to coexistence of credit and faith globally. Had a second form of capitalism - technological capitalism - not emerged binding science to innovation, harmony between faith and capitalism would prevail. However, scientific advance feeds off empirical experiment buttressed by critical debate, anathema to elites wielding power in countries saturated with religious nationalism. Easy cooperation between capitalism and religion blocked in these lands, their potential for economic progress withers, condemning many of these religious nationalist states to sustained poverty, to invidious religion traps."--Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
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Capitalism -- History
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Capitalism -- Religious aspects.
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HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
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HISTORY -- World.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Capitalism
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Capitalism -- Religious aspects
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203731048 |
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0203731042 |
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9781351399081 |
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135139908X |
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