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Wellsprings of achievement : cultural and economic dynamics in early modern England and Japan

Title: Wellsprings of achievement : cultural and economic dynamics in early modern England and Japan / edited by Penelope Gouk.
Publication: Brookfield, VT : Variorum, 1995.

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Additional Authors

Gouk, Penelope.

Description

viii, 271 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

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Contents

1. Strategies for Understanding and Interpreting Achievement / Penelope Gouk -- 2. Towards an Understanding of Intelligence, Creativity, and Achievement / Deborah Christie -- 3. 'Achievement' and the Macro-Sociology of Culture / Steven Shapin -- 4. On Achievement: A Philosophical Approach / Eckhard Kessler -- 5. Springs of Action or Vocabularies of Motive? / Michael Lynch -- 6. 1066 and a Wave of Gadgets: The Achievements of British Growth / Donald N. McCloskey -- 7. Working Bodies: Protestantism, the Productive Individual, and the Politics of Idleness / Rob Iliffe -- 8. Work, Discipline, and the Apprentice in Early Modern London / Paul S. Seaver -- 9. Printing and the Invention of Public Opinion in Seventeenth-Century England / David Zaret -- 10. Some Comparisons of England and Japan / Alan Macfarlane -- 11. Work and Culture in Early Modern Japan / Wolfgang Schwentker --
12. Culture, Action, and Institutions: On Exploring the Historical Economic Successes of England and Japan / Ian Inkster.

ISBN

0860784657

LCCN

95023992

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Columbia University Libraries