Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
7 best books like Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (R.H. Tawney): Germinal, Praise of Folly, A History of the World in 100 Objects, Civilization and Its Discontents, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution, Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688-1783
| Author | Émile Zola |
| ISBN | 0140447423 |
The thirteenth novel in Émile Zola’s great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, but also shows humanity’s capacity for compassion and hope.
Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young...
| Author | Erasmus |
| ISBN | 0140446087 |
In Praise of Brexit
Folly speaks:
About five hundred years ago, a man named Erasmus decided to publish a book praising me. Unbelievably, no one had this idea before, and none since. Nobody has the time or the inclination—nobody besides Erasmus, that is—to sing my praises, apparently....
A History of the World in 100 Objects
| Author | Neil MacGregor |
| ISBN | 1846144132 |
Neil MacGregor's A History of the World in 100 Objects takes a bold, original approach to human history, exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them. Encompassing a grand sweep of human history, A History of the World in 100 Objects begins with one of the earliest surviving objects...
Civilization and Its Discontents
| Author | Sigmund Freud |
| ISBN | 0393301583 |
It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he had been developing since the turn of the century. It is both witness and tribute to the late theory of mind—the so-called structural theory, with its stress on aggression, indeed the death drive, as...
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
The Protestant ethic — a moral code stressing hard work, rigorous self-discipline, and the organization of one's life in the service of God — was made famous by sociologist and political economist Max Weber. In this brilliant study (his best-known and most controversial), he opposes the Marxist...
| Author | Christopher Hill |
| ISBN | 0140137327 |
Within the English revolution of the mid-17th century which resulted in the triumph of the protestant ethic--the ideology of the propertied class--there threatened another, quite different, revolution. Its success "might have established communal property, a far wider democracy in political...
| Author | John Brewer |
| ISBN | 0674809300 |
This powerful interpretation of English history provides a completely new framework for understanding how Britain emerged in the eighteenth century as a major international power.
John Brewer's brilliant analysis makes clear that the drastic increase in Britain's military involvement...
