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R. H. Tawney's Commonplace Book

Author : D. M. Joslin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521025546
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book R. H. Tawney's Commonplace Book written by D. M. Joslin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-20 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Henry Tawney was a man of deep Christian beliefs and powerful emotions, and nowhere can we gain as full a view of his mind and temperament, of the limitations of his ideas as well as their strengths, as in the Commonplace Book or diary which he kept at Manchester from 1912 to 1914. This document is a unique record of the assumptions which supported Tawney's life long work as a socialist and as a scholar. The pattern of his historical interests and, in embryonic form, the outline of many of the arguments which he later developed in his three most influential books, The Acquisitive Society (1921), Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926), and Equality (1931), clearly emerge from the pages of this pre-war diary. He appears therein as a man engaged in the exploration of the internal world of his Christian beliefs; and also vigorously seeking to relate them to social and economic life. Though written sixty years ago, this private diary of a remarkable man of powerful moral convictions is no less pertinent today than it was then.

R.H. Tawney and His Times

Author : Ross Terrill
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674743779
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book R.H. Tawney and His Times written by Ross Terrill and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic historian, democratic socialist, educator, and British labor party activist, R. H. Tawney touched many worlds. His life, too, spanned great distance and change. When he was born in Calcutta in 1880, Gladstone, Tennyson, and Queen Victoria were flourishing and the British Empire was approaching its height. By the time of his death in 1962, the Empire had shrunk to a few tourist islands, and socialism, once so shocking, was now commonplace. Ross Terrill, in this absorbing first study of Tawney's thought, view his subject within three related contexts. The first is Tawney, the man. Terrill makes skillful use of unpublished material--the early diary, speech and lecture notes, letters, interviews with friends and associates--to tell the story of Tawney's life in relation to his times. Second is social democracy. Tawney was one of its most influential philosophers and prophets, and this book argues for the continuing validity of his socialism as a path between capitalism and communism. Third is British politics. From Edwardian liberal "consensus" to mid-century collectivist "consensus," Tawney's long career, often at odds with prevailing orthodoxies, offers a window on British political culture. Four key ideas are found in Tawney's political thought: equality and the dispersion of power--the "shape of socialism"; function and citizenship--the "life of socialism." These ideas, and indeed the life of the man himself, Terrill believes, are summed up in socialism as fellowship. "As long as men are men," Tawney said, "a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life, nor a rich society too rich to have need to seek it." This book is a blend of biography, history, and the study of political ideas. It provides a striking portrait of a remarkable man and a panorama of changing ideas and situations in the society where he tried to realize his socialist vision. It offers many glimpses of Tawney's associates, among them Beveridge, the Webbs, Laski, A. P. Wadsworth, Temple, Margaret Cole, and Leonard Woolf; and surprising snippets, like the fact that Tawney used the phrase "private affluence and public squalor" in 1919.

The Life of R. H. Tawney

Author : Lawrence Goldman
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1780936125
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Life of R. H. Tawney written by Lawrence Goldman and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R. H. Tawney was the most influential theorist and exponent of socialism in Britain in the 20th century and also a leading historian. Based on papers deposited at the London School of Economics including a collection of personal material previously held by his family, this book provides the first detailed biography. Lawrence Goldman shows that to understand Tawney's work it is necessary to understand his life. This biography takes a broadly chronological approach, and uses this framework to examine major themes, including Tawney's political thought and historical writings. Tawney was the most representative of Labour's intellectuals as well as the most influential, and the contradictions he embodied are evident in the general history of British socialism.

The Acquisitive Society

Author : Richard Henry Tawney
Publisher : Binker North
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Acquisitive Society written by Richard Henry Tawney and published by Binker North. This book was released on 1922 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Acquisitive Society was written by R. H. Tawney and published in 1920. Tawney herein criticizes the selfish individualism of modern industrial societies. He argues that capitalism corrupts via the promotion of economic self-interest, leading to aimless production in response to greed and insatiable acquisitiveness, and hence to perversions of industrialism. He attests further that, by extension, nationalism leads to the perversion of imperialism and to a necessarily failed balance of power strategy, resulting in unnecessary wars. It is a commonplace that the characteristic virtue of Englishmen is their power of sustained practical activity, and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity by reference to principles. They are incurious as to theory, take fundamentals for granted, and are more interested in the state of the roads than in their place on the map. And it might fairly be argued that in ordinary times that combination of intellectual tameness with practical energy is sufficiently serviceable to explain, if not to justify, the equanimity with which its possessors bear the criticism of more mentally adventurous nations. It is the mood of those who have made their bargain with fate and are content to take what it offers without re-opening the deal. It leaves the mind free to concentrate undisturbed upon profitable activities, because it is not distracted by a taste for unprofitable speculations. Most generations, it might be said, walk in a path which they neither make, nor discover, but accept; the main thing is that they should march. The blinkers worn by Englishmen enable them to trot all the more steadily along the beaten {2} road, without being disturbed by curiosity as to their destination.

The Moral Economists

Author : Tim Rogan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691191492
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Moral Economists written by Tim Rogan and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh look at how three important twentieth-century British thinkers viewed capitalism through a moral rather than material lens What’s wrong with capitalism? Answers to that question today focus on material inequality. Led by economists and conducted in utilitarian terms, the critique of capitalism in the twenty-first century is primarily concerned with disparities in income and wealth. It was not always so. The Moral Economists reconstructs another critical tradition, developed across the twentieth century in Britain, in which material deprivation was less important than moral or spiritual desolation. Tim Rogan focuses on three of the twentieth century’s most influential critics of capitalism—R. H. Tawney, Karl Polanyi, and E. P. Thompson. Making arguments about the relationships between economics and ethics in modernity, their works commanded wide readerships, shaped research agendas, and influenced public opinion. Rejecting the social philosophy of laissez-faire but fearing authoritarianism, these writers sought out forms of social solidarity closer than individualism admitted but freer than collectivism allowed. They discovered such solidarities while teaching economics, history, and literature to workers in the north of England and elsewhere. They wrote histories of capitalism to make these solidarities articulate. They used makeshift languages of “tradition” and “custom” to describe them until Thompson patented the idea of the “moral economy.” Their program began as a way of theorizing everything economics left out, but in challenging utilitarian orthodoxy in economics from the outside, they anticipated the work of later innovators inside economics. Examining the moral cornerstones of a twentieth-century critique of capitalism, The Moral Economists explains why this critique fell into disuse, and how it might be reformulated for the twenty-first century.

Land and Labour in China

Author : R H. TAWNEY DEC'D
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781032638430
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Land and Labour in China written by R H. TAWNEY DEC'D and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1932 Land and Labour in China is an introductory volume dealing with certain aspects of economic life in China. R. H. Tawney discusses important themes such as rural framework; problems of the peasant; poverty, war and famine; land tenure; agrarian policies in China; science and education; drought and flood; population migration and the development of industry; the growth of capitalist industry; politics and education; and legacy of the past. This book is an important historical resource for students and scholars of Chinese history and Chinese studies.

The Debate on the English Revolution

Author : R. C. Richardson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719047404
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book The Debate on the English Revolution written by R. C. Richardson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1998-12-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses the different ways in which historians over the last three centuries have tried to explain the causes, course and consequences of the English Revolution

Education for Democracy in England in World War II

Author : Hsiao-Yuh Ku
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317354478
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Education for Democracy in England in World War II written by Hsiao-Yuh Ku and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education for Democracy in England in World War II examines the educational discourse and involvement in wartime educational reforms of five important figures: Fred Clarke, R. H. Tawney, Shena Simon, H. C. Dent and Ernest Simon. These figures campaigned for educational reforms through their books, publishing articles in newspapers, delivering speeches at schools and conferences and by organizing pressure groups. Going beyond the literature in this key period, the book focuses on exploring the relationship between democratic ideals and reform proposals in each figure’s arguments. Displaying a variety of democratic forums for debates about education beyond parliament, the book re-interprets wartime educational reforms from a different perspective and illustrates the agreements and contradictions in the educational discourse itself.

T.H. Green and the Development of Ethical Socialism

Author : Matt Carter
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1845406729
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book T.H. Green and the Development of Ethical Socialism written by Matt Carter and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2016-11-16 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uncovers the philosophical foundations of a tradition of ethical socialism best represented in the work of R.H. Tawney, tracing its roots back to the work of T.H. Green. Green and his colleagues developed a philosophy that rejected the atomistic individualism and empiricist assumptions that underpinned classical liberalism and helped to found a new political ideology based around four notions: the common good; a positive view of freedom; equality of opportunity; and an expanded role for the state. The book shows how Tawney adopted the key features of the idealists' philosophical settlement and used them to help shape his own notions of true freedom and equality, thereby establishing a tradition of thought which remains relevant in British politics today.

Studies in Economic History

Author : George Unwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Studies in Economic History written by George Unwin and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "List of published works of George Unwin": pages 465-471. Imprint covered by label: A.M. Kelley, New York.

Historians and the Church of England

Author : James Kirby
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019876815X
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Historians and the Church of England written by James Kirby and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Victorian and Edwardian era, history was one of the most prized forms of cultural and intellectual activity: it was, quite simply, the lens through which most of the educated population understood human society. Historians and the Church of England uncovers for the first time the extent to which this historical understanding was conditioned by religious ideas and institutions. Rejecting the traditional chronology of intellectual secularization, itcontends that the Church of England in particular remained an active force in the development of scholarship, leaving a deep impression on history just as it was becoming a modern discipline. It thereforechallenges readers to revise their understanding of the history of both historiography and religion in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.

Labour's Thinkers

Author : Kevin Hickson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 085771418X
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Labour's Thinkers written by Kevin Hickson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-04-27 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Labour's Thinkers" seeks to examine the key ideas emphasised by the twelve individuals whom the authors judge to have made the most significant development to the political thought of the Labour Party since the 1930s. Hickson and Beech argue the Labour Party is a party of values but often not of ideas. The number of people involved in the serious discussion of ideas in the Labour Party is relatively small and intellectuals are often viewed with suspicion in what is, or was, a party set up to represent the interests of the working classes. The formulation and development of ideas are therefore crucial to understanding the outcomes of the Labour Party's internal struggles and the basis of the party's appeal. "Labour's Thinkers" highlights influential and, at times, controversial figures involved in the battle of socialist ideas in the Labour Party thus exploring concepts, such as equality, liberty, community, power, the state, ownership and patriotism.

Welfare and Social Policy in Britain Since 1870

Author : Lawrence Goldman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192569449
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Welfare and Social Policy in Britain Since 1870 written by Lawrence Goldman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of twelve essays reviews the history of welfare in Britain over the past 150 years. It focuses on the ideas that have shaped the development of British social policy, and on the thinkers who have inspired and also contested the welfare state. It thereby constructs an intellectual history of British welfare since the concept first emerged at the end of the nineteenth century. The essays divide into four sections. The first considers the transition from laissez-faire to social liberalism from the 1870s, and the enduring impact of late-Victorian philosophical idealism on the development of the welfare state. It focuses on the moral philosophy of T. H. Green and his influence on key figures in the history of British social policy like William Beveridge, R. H. Tawney, and William Temple. The second section is devoted to the concept of 'planning' which was once, in the mid-twentieth century, at the heart of social policy and its implementation, but which has subsequently fallen out of favour. A third section examines the intellectual debate over the welfare state since its creation in the 1940s. Though a consensus seemed to have emerged during the Second World War over the desirability and scope of a welfare state extending 'from the cradle to the grave', libertarian and conservative critiques endured and re-emerged a generation later. A final section examines social policy and its implementation more recently, both at grass roots level in a study of community action in West London in the districts made infamous by the fire at Grenfell Tower in 2017, and at a systemic level where different models of welfare provision are shown to be in uneasy co-existence today. The collection is a tribute to Jose Harris, emeritus professor of history in the University of Oxford and a pioneer of the intellectual history of social policy. Taken together, these essays conduct the reader through the key phases and debates in the history of British welfare.

Cultural Olympians

Author : John Taylor (Lecturer in philosophy)
Publisher : Legend Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1908684070
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Olympians written by John Taylor (Lecturer in philosophy) and published by Legend Press Ltd. This book was released on 2013 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to explore key questions surrounding faith, philosophy, science, culture and social progress by celebrating the life and thought of cultural leaders from Rugby School (estd. 1567). Some of the most distinguished historians, philosophers, social commentators and religious commentators are alumni of Rugby School. In this collection of essays, contributors explore the most important values that guide and challenge us today, by reflecting on the achievements of these cultural heavyweights. This collection is edited by Patrick Derham, the current Headmaster of Rugby School. Contributors include: John Witheridge John Clarke Anthony Kenny David Urquhart Robin le Poidevin A.N. Wilson Andrew Vincent A.C. Grayling Jay Winter, Ian Hesketh David Boucher Rowan William Patrick Derham John Taylor

Before and Beyond the 'Big Society'

Author : Joseph Forde
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
ISBN 13 : 0227177797
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (271 download)

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Download or read book Before and Beyond the 'Big Society' written by Joseph Forde and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Milbank's theology has shaped much modern political thinking both within and without the Church. In Before and Beyond the 'Big Society', Joseph Forde presents the first study devoted exclusively to John Milbank's theology of welfare, and how it has influenced policy in the Church of England since 2008. By examining the favourable response the Church gave to the 'Big Society' project in 2010-12, Forde shows that Milbank's Blue Socialist fingerprint increasingly dominates. However, this theology has not evolved in a vacuum and Forde expertly places it in its historical and theoretical context. He offers a detailed critical discussion of Milbank's own critique of what has been the mainstream (Temple) Anglican theology of welfare in the Church of England since the 1940s, and a fresh contribution to the assessment of Anglican social theology. Finally, he demonstrates how Milbank's ideas have been furthered by other influential Anglicans. It is this influence that will carry the greatest implications for the Church of England's policy on welfare going forward, making this study relevant to all who care about its contribution to the provision of welfare.

Research Handbook on Information Policy

Author : Duff, Alistair S.
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789903580
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book Research Handbook on Information Policy written by Duff, Alistair S. and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive and innovative Research Handbook tackles the pressing issues confronting us at the dawn of the global network society, including freedom of speech, government transparency and the digital divide. Engaging with controversial problems of public policy including freedom of expression, copyright and information inequality, the Research Handbook on Information Policy offers a well-rounded exploration of the history and future of this vital field.

Socialism and the Challenge of War (RLE The First World War)

Author : Jay M. Winter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317700090
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Socialism and the Challenge of War (RLE The First World War) written by Jay M. Winter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War marks a crucial period in the history of the socialist wing of the British labour movement. This book is an account of the development of the political ideas and activities of some of the most influential British socialist thinkers of that time: Beatrice and Sidney Webb, R. H. Tawney and G. D. H. Cole. The first part of the book examines the state of the Labour movement and of socialist ideas on the eve of the conflict, then turns to the central question of the impact of the War on the dissemination of British socialist ideas.