1st Edition

History and Society Essays by R.H. Tawney

Edited By R.H. Tawney Copyright 1978
268 Pages
by Routledge

276 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

R. H. Tawney believed that the subject of economic history raises questions which touch the fundamental concerns of all thinking people. By setting economic development firmly within the framework of cultural and political life, he provided an alternative to the recent fragmentation of economic history into a number of increasingly technical specialisms. For this reason, his work has appealed to... Read more

Part I Historical Essays  1. The Study of Economic History (1933)  2. Harrington’s Interpretation of His Age (1941)  3. The Rise of the Gentry, 1558-1640, and Postscript (1941 and 1954)  4. The Abolition of Economic controls 1918-21 (1941)  Part II Reviews and Revaluations  5. Max Weber and the Spirit of Capitalism (1930)  6. A Berkshire Farmer in the Reign of James I (1937)  7. A History of Capitalism (1950)  8. Devon and Dr Hoskins (1954)  9. The Church and the Stuarts (1957)  10 J. L. Hammond, 1872-1949 (1960)

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R.H. Tawney