It has often been claimed that Jews have a penchant for capitalism and capitalist economic activity. With this book, Adam Teller challenges that assumption. Examining how Jews achieved their extraordinary success within the late feudal economy of the eighteenth-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, he shows that economic success did not necessarily come through any innate entrepreneurial skills, but through identifying and exploiting economic niches in the pre-modern economy—in particular, the monopoly on the sale of grain alcohol.
Jewish economic activity was a key factor in the development of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and it greatly enhanced the incomes, and thereby the social and political status, of the noble magnates, including the powerful Radziwi?? family. In turn, with the magnate's backing, Jews were able to leverage their own economic success into high status in estate society. Over time, relations within Jewish society began to change, putting less value on learning and pedigree and more on wealth and connections with the estate owners.
This groundbreaking book exemplifies how the study of Jewish economic history can shed light on a crucial mechanism of Jewish social integration. In the Polish-Lithuanian setting, Jews were simultaneously a despised religious minority and key economic players, with a consequent standing that few could afford to ignore.
The Cold War was fought between “state socialism” and “the free market.” That fluctuating relationship between public power and private money continues today, unfolding in new and unforeseen ways during the economic crisis. Nine case studies -- from Southern Africa, South Asia, Brazil, and Atlantic Africa – examine economic life from the perspective of ordinary people in places that are normally marginal to global discourse, covering a range of class positions from the bottom to the top of society. The authors of these case studies examine people’s concrete economic activities and aspirations. By looking at how people insert themselves into the actual, unequal economy, they seek to reflect human unity and diversity more fully than the narrow vision of conventional economics.
Автор: Susan Broomhall, Jane W. Davidson, Andrew Lynch Название: A Cultural History of the Emotions: Volumes 1-6 ISBN: 1472515064 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472515063 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 417120.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: The Cambridge History of Religions in the Ancient World provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the religions of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean world from the third millennium BCE to the fourth century BCE. Its essays, written by leading scholars, are accompanied by introductory essays by the General Editor and Volume Editor as well as maps, illustrations and detailed indexes.
Автор: Gary Watt Название: A Cultural History of Law: Volumes 1-6 ISBN: 1474212859 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474212854 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 501600.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание:
How have legal ideas and institutions affected Western culture? And how has the law itself been shaped by its cultural context?
In a work spanning 4,500 years, these questions are addressed by 57 experts, each contributing an authoritative study of a theme applied to a period in history. Supported by detailed case material and over 230 illustrations, the volumes examine trends and nuances of the culture of law in Western societies from antiquity to the present. Individual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole, and to make it as easy as possible to use, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six.
The six volumes cover: 1 - Antiquity (2500 BCE-500 CE); 2 - Middle Ages (500-1500); 3 - Early Modern Age (1500-1680); 4 - Age of Enlightenment (1680-1820); 5 - Age of Reform (1820-1920); 6 - Modern Age (1920-present).
Themes (and chapter titles) are: Justice; Constitution; Codes; Agreements; Arguments; Property and Possession; Wrongs; and the Legal Profession.
The total page extent for the pack is approximately 1200 pages. Each volume opens with a Series Preface, an Introduction and Notes on Contributors and concludes with Notes, Bibliography and an Index.
The Cultural Histories Series A Cultural History of Law is part of the Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available both as printed hardcover sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a one-off purchase and tangible reference for their shelves, or as part of a fully searchable digital library available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com).
Автор: Ronald Edsforth Название: A Cultural History of Peace: Volumes 1-6 ISBN: 1474241352 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474241359 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 501600.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание:
A Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers a span of 2500 years, tracing how different cultures and societies have thought about, struggled for, developed and sustained peace in different ways and at different times.
1. A Cultural History of Peace in Antiquity (500 BCE - 800 CE) 2. A Cultural History of Peace in the Medieval Age (800 - 1450) 3. A Cultural History of Peace in the Renaissance (1450 - 1648) 4. A Cultural History of Peace in the Age of Enlightenment (1648 - 1815) 5. A Cultural History of Peace in the Age of Empire (1815 - 1920) 6. A Cultural History of Peace in the Modern Age (1920 - present) Each volume discusses the same themes in its chapters: 1. Definitions of Peace 2. Human Nature, Peace and War 3. Peace, War and Gender 4. Peace, Pacifism and Religion 5. Representations of Peace 6. Peace as Integration 7. Peace Movements 8. Peace, Security and Deterrence This structure offers readers a broad overview of a period within each volume or the opportunity to follow a theme through history by reading the relevant chapter across volumes. Generously illustrated, the full six-volume set combines to present the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on peace in history.
The American Football League, established in 1960, was innovative both in its commitment to finding talented, overlooked players—particularly those who played for historically black colleges and universities—and in the decision by team owners to share television revenues.
In Mavericks, Money and Men, football historian Charles Ross chronicles the AFL’s key events, including Buck Buchanan becoming the first overall draft pick in 1963, and the 1965 boycott led by black players who refused to play in the AFL-All Star game after experiencing blatant racism. He also recounts how the success of the AFL forced a merger with the NFL in 1969, which arguably facilitated the evolution of modern professional football.
Ross shows how the league, originally created as a challenge to the dominance of the NFL, pressured for and ultimately accelerated the racial integration of pro football and also allowed the sport to adapt to how African Americans were themselves changing the game.
Автор: Wauchope Robert, Vogt Evon Z. Название: Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volumes 7 and 8: Ethnology ISBN: 1477306692 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781477306697 Издательство: Marston Book Services Цена: 125400.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: These volumes contain forty-three articles, all written by authorities in their field, on the ethnology of the Maya region, the southern Mexican highlands and adjacent regions, the central Mexican highlands, western Mexico, and northwest Mexico.
Автор: Deborah Simonton, Anne Montenach Название: A Cultural History of Work: Volumes 1-6 ISBN: 147424503X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474245036 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Цена: 417120.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание:
How has our relationship with 'work' changed for different cultures over the centuries? What effect has it had on politics, art and religion?
In a work that spans 2,500 years these ambitious questions are addressed by 63 experts, each contributing their overview of a theme applied to a period in history. With the help of a broad range of case material they illustrate broad trends and nuances of the culture of work in Western culture from antiquity to the present. Individual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole, and to make it as easy as possible to use, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six.
The six volumes cover 1 - Antiquity (500 BCE to 800 CE); 2 - Medieval Age (800 to 1450); 3 - Early Modern Age (1450 to 1650); 4 - Age of Enlightenment (1650 to 1800); 5 - Age of Empire (1800 to 1920); 6 - Modern Age (1920 to the present).
Themes (and chapter titles) are: The Economy of Work; Picturing Work; Work and Workplaces; Workplace Cultures; Work, Skill and Technology; Work and Mobility; The Political Culture of Work; and Work and Leisure.
The page extent for the pack is approximately 1,400 pages. Each volume opens with Notes on Contributors and an Introduction, and concludes with Notes, Bibliography, and an Index.
The Cultural Histories Series A Cultural History of Work is part of The Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available both as printed hardcover sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a one-off purchase and tangible reference for their shelves, or as part of a fully-searchable digital library available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com).
Автор: Linda Kalof Название: A Cultural History of Women: Volumes 1-6 ISBN: 1350009849 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350009844 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 137280.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: A broad overview of the history of women from the ancient Greeks to today.
Автор: Howard F. Cline, Charles Gibson, H.B. Nicholson Название: Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volumes 14 and 15: Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources, Parts Three and Four ISBN: 1477306862 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781477306864 Издательство: Marston Book Services Цена: 109560.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: These volumes contain ethnohistorical sources from the indigenous tradition, including prose and pictorial materials, a checklist of repositories, a title and synonymy index, and an annotated bibliography on native sources.
Автор: Osburg John Название: Anxious Wealth: Money and Morality Among China`s New Rich ISBN: 0804783543 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780804783545 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 21730.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Who exactly are China's new rich? This pioneering investigation introduces readers to the private lives—and the nightlives—of the powerful entrepreneurs and managers redefining success and status in the city of Chengdu. Over the course of more than three years, anthropologist John Osburg accompanied, and in some instances assisted, wealthy Chinese businessmen as they courted clients, partners, and government officials.
Drawing on his immersive experiences, Osburg invites readers to join him as he journeys through the new, highly gendered entertainment sites for Chinese businessmen, including karaoke clubs, saunas, and massage parlors—places specifically designed to cater to the desires and enjoyment of elite men. Within these spaces, a masculinization of business is taking place. Osburg details the complex code of behavior that governs businessmen as they go about banqueting, drinking, gambling, bribing, exchanging gifts, and obtaining sexual services.
These intricate social networks play a key role in generating business, performing social status, and reconfiguring gender roles. But many entrepreneurs feel trapped by their obligations and moral compromises in this evolving environment. Ultimately, Osburg examines their deep ambivalence about China's future and their own complicity in the major issues of post-Mao Chinese society—corruption, inequality, materialism, and loss of trust.
Автор: Henderson Lisa Helen Название: Love and Money ISBN: 0814790577 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780814790571 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 74360.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Love and Money argues that we can’t understand contemporary queer cultures without looking through the lens of social class. Resisting old divisions between culture and economy, identity and privilege, left and queer, recognition and redistribution, Love and Money offers supple approaches to capturing class experience and class form in and around queerness.
Contrary to familiar dismissals, not every queer television or movie character is like Will Truman on Will and Grace—rich, white, healthy, professional, detached from politics, community, and sex. Through ethnographic encounters with readers and cultural producers and such texts as Boys Don’t Cry, Brokeback Mountain, By Hook or By Crook, and wedding announcements in the New York Times, Love and Money sees both queerness and class across a range of idioms and practices in everyday life. How, it asks, do readers of Dorothy Allison’s novels use her work to find a queer class voice? How do gender and race broker queer class fantasy? How do independent filmmakers cross back and forth between industry and queer sectors, changing both places as they go and challenging queer ideas about bad commerce and bad taste? With an eye to the nuances and harms of class difference in queerness and a wish to use culture to forge queer and class affinities, Love and Money returns class and its politics to the study of queer life.
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