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Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, Classics To Go

Tawney investigates the way religion has moulded social and economic practice. He tracks the influence of religious thought on capitalist economy and ideology since the Middle Ages, shedding light on the question of why Christianity continues to exert a unique role in the marketplace.

R. H. Tawney

Richard Henry Tawney(30 November 1880 – 16 January 1962) was an English economic historian,social critic, ethical socialist, Christian socialist,and important proponent of adult education. The Oxford Companion to British History (1997) explained that Tawney made a "significant impact" in these "interrelated roles".[10] A. L. Rowse goes further by insisting that "Tawney exercised the widest influence of any historian of his time, politically, socially and, above all, educationally".

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