R.H. Tawney
Born
in Cacutta, India
November 30, 1880
Died
January 16, 1962
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Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
105 editions
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1926
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The Acquisitive Society
191 editions
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published
1920
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Equality
22 editions
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published
1931
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The Radical Tradition: Twelve Essays on Politics, Education, and Literature
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13 editions
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published
1964
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The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century
27 editions
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published
1967
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Land and Labour in China
9 editions
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published
1932
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History and society: Essays
7 editions
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1978
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The attack,: And other papers (Essay index reprint series)
6 editions
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published
1971
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Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
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“Granted, I should love my neighbor as myself, the questions which, under modern conditions of large-scale organization, remain for solution are, ''Who precisely is my neighbor?'' and ''How exactly am I to make my love for them effective in practice?''... It had insisted that all men were brethren. But it did not occur to it to point out that, as a result of the new economic imperialism, which was begging to develop in the 17th century, the brethren of the English merchant were the Africans whom he kidnapped for slavery in America, or the American Indians from whom he stripped of their lands, or the Indian craftsmen whom he bought muslin's and silks at starvation prices. Religion had not yet learned to console itself for the practical difficulty of applying its moral principles by clasping the comfortable formula that for the transaction of economic life no moral principles exist.”
― Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
― Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
“What thoughtful rich people call the problem of poverty , thoughtful poor people with equal justice call the problem of riches.”
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