Description
Book SynopsisThis volume of interdisciplinary essays brings together leading academics from the fields of history, economic history, politics and sociology to review and take forward a series of debates on the role of culture in social explanation.
Table of Contents
- Part 1
- The problem of culture: momentum and history, Stephen Mennell
- Prices as descriptions - reasons as explanations, Iain Hampsher-Monk.
- Part 2
- Production and culture: culture, environment and the historical lag in Asia's industrialization, Eric L. Jones
- Cultural values and entrepreneurial action - the case of the Irish Republic, Paul Keating
- Employers, workplace culture and workers' politics, British industry and workers' welfare programmes, 1870-1920, Joseph Melling
- Cultural influences on economic action, Sidney Pollard.
- Part 3
- Consumption and culture: excess, frugality and the spirit of Capitalism - readings of mandeville on commercial society, Dario Castiglione
- Addicted to modernity - nervousness in the early consumer society, Roy Porter
- Bourgeois production and realist styles of art, Robert Witkin
- Setting up the seen, Philip Corrigan
- Index
