Jared Poley

The Devil's Riches

A Modern History of Greed

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Interdisciplinary Accessible Focuses on the modern period (1400-present) Oriented around religion, economics, and health as three ways that humans have sought to understand greed

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 337g
• ISBN-13: 9781785337413
• ISBN-10: 1785337416
• Artikelnr.: 48385354

Autorenporträt

Jared Poley is Professor of History at Georgia State University. He is author of Decolonization in Germany: Weimar Narratives of Colonial Loss and Foreign Occupation (2005) and a co-editor of the collections Conversion and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Germany (Berghahn, 2012), Migrations in the German Lands, 1500-2000 (Berghahn, 2016), Kinship, Community, and Self (Berghahn, 2014), and Money in the German Speaking Lands (Berghahn, 2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Greed and Avarice before Absolutism
Chapter 2. The Confessionalization of an Emotion
Chapter 3. Greed and the Law in the Seventeenth Century
Chapter 4. Greed, Consumerism, and the State
Chapter 5. Greed and the Oscillations between Liberalism and Socialism
Chapter 6. Greed and the New Spiritualism
Chapter 7. The Psychology and Psychoanalysis of Greed
Conclusions: Greed and History
Index