The Devil's Riches by Jared Poley

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.

"..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
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