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Book Synopsis
This 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

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      Publisher: Liverpool University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 7/1/1992 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780859893800, 978-0859893800
      ISBN10: 0859893804

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This 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

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