The Devil's Riches by Jared Poley
A seeming constant in the history of capitalism, greed has nonetheless undergone considerable transformations over the last five hundred years. This multilayered account offers a fresh take on an old topic, arguing that greed was experienced as a moral phenomenon and deployed to make sense of an unjust world. Focusing specifically on the interrelated themes of religion, economics, and health-each of which sought to study and channel the power of financial desire-Jared Poley shows how evolving ideas about greed became formative elements of the modern experience.-
Walls, Borders, Boundaries
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Names and Naming in Early Modern Germany
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After The History of Sexuality
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Beyond Alterity
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Archeologies of Confession
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Money in the German-speaking Lands
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Ruptures in the Everyday
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Beyond Posthumanism
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Views of Violence
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Dreams of Germany
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The Total Work of Art
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Conversion and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Germany
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Kinship, Community, and Self
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The Holy Roman Empire, Reconsidered
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The Origins of German Self-Cultivation
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Migrations in the German Lands, 1500-2000
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Reluctant Skeptic
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Managing Pandemics in Early Modern Germany
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The Emperor's Old Clothes
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Football Nation
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Weimar Publics/Weimar Subjects
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Becoming East German
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Former Neighbors, Future Allies?
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Minority Discourses in Germany since 1990
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What Remains
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Feelings Materialized
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Agency and Author
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Invested Narratives
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Mixed Matches
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Healing and Harm
"..a thought-provoking study of a subject that is too often taken for granted, rather than subjected to critical examination." Financial Times
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).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781785331268 |
| ISBN 10 | 1785331264 |
| Title | The Devil's Riches |
| Author | Jared Poley |
| Series | Spektrum: Publications Of The German Studies Association |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books |
| Year published | 2016-02-22 |
| Number of pages | 264 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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