Religion and the Rise of Capitalism or A History of Modern Germany since 1815

Religion and the Rise of Capitalism

Author: RH Tawney

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.

Booknews

Discusses the influence of religious thought on capitalist economy and ideology since the Middle Ages. The author argues that "the medieval conception of the social order, which had regarded it as a highly articulated organism of members contributing in their different ways to a spiritual purpose was shattered" in favor of a "creed of the individual" as "master of his own, with no obligation to postpone his own profit to the well-being of his neighbors." Originally published in 1926 by Harcourt Brace and Co. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Book review: Human Resources Management or Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

A History of Modern Germany since 1815

Author: Frank B Tipton

Germany has fascinated its own people as well as onlookers in the twentieth century because, unlike the history of other European states, its very being has been posed as a question. Why was there no unified German state until late in the nineteenth century? How did Germany become an industrial power? What responsibility does Germany bear for the two world wars? This accessible but authoritative study attempts to answer these and other fundamental questions by looking at the economic, social, political and cultural forces that have created modern Germany.
The 1848 revolutions ushered in an age of Realism that saw rapid economic development and the creation of the Bismarckian empire. However, by the early twentieth century Germany's economic expansion and position as a world power began to fracture and growing internal, economic, social, and political contradictions led it, with disastrous results, into the First World War and the subsequent Weimar Republic. Hitler and the Nazi movement proposed a "revolution" and the creation of a "German style" and the Second World War/Holocaust is, arguably, the defining event of the twentieth century. The Americanization of the German economy and society, the "economic miracle" and euphoria of reunification have in recent years rapidly given way to disillusionment as the major political parties have failed to master outstanding social and environmental problems. The "German question"--Germany's place within the European Union--continues to be unanswered even within an EU where it is the dominant economic power.

Table of Contents:

	List of Plates
	List of Figures
	List of Maps
	List of Tables
	Preface
1	Introduction: From Generation to Generation	1
2	The Romantic Age, 1815-40	25
3	A Revolutionary Generation: The 1840s and the Revolutions of 1848	59
4	The Age of Realism, 1850-71	90
5	An Anxious Generation, 1871-90	129
6	Neoclassical Facade and Modernist Revolt, 1890-1914	180
7	Politics, Governance, and Diplomacy between Neoclassicism and Modernism	223
8	The First World War	270
9	An Expressionist Age: The Weimar Republic, 1918-33	323
10	The Politics of Feeling and the Search for Stability	370
11	A "German Style": The Nazi Generation	420
12	Nazi Politics: The Road to War and the Holocaust	457
13	Abstract Expressionism and Socialist Realism: Divided Germany in an Age of Economic Miracles	496
14	A Postmodern Generation: West and East Germany after the Miracle, 1973-89	558
15	Neo-Realism: Reunification and Reunited Germany	614
	Bibliography	668
	Index	714