Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Moral Background -- 2. Ethics as a Business Proposition -- 3. Christian Motives -- 4. The Good of American Business -- 5. The Good of American Society -- 6. Standards of Practice -- 7. The Christian Merchant -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments --...

Inhalt: Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: The Market as a party? -- 2. Eight hundred years of economic growth, 1000-1800 -- 3. Between feudalism and freedom, 1000-1350 -- 4. Capitalism and civil society in late Medieval Holland, 1350-1566 -- 5. A capitalist revolution? The Dutch...

The diplomat and historian George F. Kennan (1904-2005) ranks as one of the most important figures in American foreign policy – and one of its most complex. Drawing on many previously untapped sources, Frank Costigliola’s authoritative biography offers a new picture of a man of extraordinary...

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