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The Puritan Gift
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Author : Kenneth Hopper
language : en
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Release Date : 2007-02-23
The Puritan Gift written by Kenneth Hopper and has been published by I.B. Tauris this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-02-23 with History categories.
Financial Times Top Ten Business Book of 2007! The Puritan Gift traces the origins and the characteristics of American managerial culture which, in the course of three centuries, would turn a group of small colonies into the greatest economic and political power on earth. It was the Protestant ethic whose characteristics--thrift, a respect for enquiry, individualism tempered by a need to cooperate, success as a measure of divine approval--helped to create the conditions which led to America's managerial and corporate success. Thus, the authors contend, the drive, energy and acceptance of innovation, competition, growth and social mobility, all have their origins in the discipline and ethos of America's first wave of European immigrants: the Puritans. And, the authors warn, as Americans distance themselves from core values which produced their nineteenth and twentieth century business and economic successes, they endanger the basis for their prosperity and security.
The Puritan Gift
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Author : Kenneth Hopper
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
The Puritan Gift written by Kenneth Hopper and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with categories.
The Puritan Gift
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Author : Kenneth Hopper
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
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The Puritan Gift
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Author : Kenneth Hopper
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2009-01-30
The Puritan Gift written by Kenneth Hopper and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-30 with Business & Economics categories.
Where does the Protestant work ethic come from? And how did America achieve such dominance in management for so long? "The Puritan Gift" traces the origins and the characteristics of American managerial culture which, in the course of three centuries, turned a group of small colonies into the greatest economic and political power on earth. It argues that the drive, energy and acceptance of innovation, competition, growth and social mobility, all of which lie at the root of America's management culture, have their origins in the discipline and ethos of America's first wave of European immigrants: the Puritans.And, the authors warn, as Americans distance themselves from the core values which produced their business and economic successes during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, they put their future prosperity and security at risk. This is an original exploration of the dramatic and far-reaching consequences of the Puritans' 'gift' to America - the ethos which produced the early success of America and what came to be known as the American dream.
Schooling The Puritan Imperative And The Molding Of An American National Identity
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Author : Douglas McKnight
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003-05-14
Schooling The Puritan Imperative And The Molding Of An American National Identity written by Douglas McKnight and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-05-14 with Education categories.
Present-day America is perceived by many as immersed in a moral crisis, with national identity fractured and uncertainty and anxiety about the future. Public schools in this country are, historically and still today, the major institution charged with preserving and teaching the symbols of national identity and a morality that is the concrete expression of those symbols and the ideas for which they stand. A widespread belief is that only through schooling can America be saved from the current "crisis," but the schools have failed in this mission and must be reformed. In this book, Douglas McKnight develops a historical interpretation of how the New England Puritans generated a powerful belief system and set of symbols that have fed American identity and contributed to preserving and perpetuating it into the present time. He explores the relationship between the purposes of education (and how this term has shifted in meaning) and the notion of an American identity and morality--rooted in the Puritan concept of an "errand into the wilderness"--that serves a particular sacred/secular purpose. The phrase "errand into the wilderness" is taken from a 1956 book by Perry Miller with this title, where it refers to the Puritan dream of creating a city in the wilderness (the North American Colonies) that would be a utopian community--a beacon for the rest of the world for how to organize and live in the ideal religious community. Highly pertinent to the current debate about the purposes and crisis in education and in America, morality in schools, the cultural function of education, the changing nature of the language of education, the complex relation of schooling and national identity, this book explicates these elements within the American psyche by exploring the effects of the Puritan "symbolic narrative" at three different points in American history: Puritans during the 1600s and 1700s; the Gilded Age, when the urban Protestant middle class ascended to cultural dominance; and the present age. Schooling, the Puritan Imperative, and the Molding of an American National Identity: Education's "Errand Into the Wilderness" makes an important contribution to the fields of curriculum studies and the history of education. It will interest students and scholars in these fields, as well as those in educational philosophy, religion and education, intellectual and social history, and American studies.
The Puritan Gift
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Author : Kenneth Hopper
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2007-02-23
The Puritan Gift written by Kenneth Hopper and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-02-23 with History categories.
Where does the Protestant work ethic come from? And how did America achieve such dominance in management for so long? "The Puritan Gift" traces the origins and the characteristics of American managerial culture which, in the course of three centuries, turned a group of small colonies into the greatest economic and political power on earth. It argues that the drive, energy and acceptance of innovation, competition, growth and social mobility, all of which lie at the root of America's management culture, have their origins in the discipline and ethos of America's first wave of European immigrants: the Puritans.And, the authors warn, as Americans distance themselves from the core values which produced their business and economic successes during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, they put their future prosperity and security at risk. This is an original exploration of the dramatic and far-reaching consequences of the Puritans' 'gift' to America - the ethos which produced the early success of America and what came to be known as the American dream.
Reflections On The Puritan Revolution
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Author : A.L. Rowse
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-04-17
Reflections On The Puritan Revolution written by A.L. Rowse and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-17 with Political Science categories.
Reflections on the Puritan Revolution (1986) examines the damage done by the Puritans during the English Civil War, and the enormous artistic losses England suffered from their activities. The Puritans smashed stained glass, monuments, sculpture, brasses in cathedrals and churches; they destroyed organs, dispersed the choirs and the music. They sold the King’s art collections, pictures, statues, plate, gems and jewels abroad, and broke up the Coronation regalia. They closed down the theatres and ended Caroline poetry. The greatest composer and most promising scientist of the age were among the many lives lost; and this all besides the ruin of palaces, castles and mansions.
A Quest For Godliness
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Author : James Innell Packer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
A Quest For Godliness written by James Innell Packer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Religion categories.
Lancashire Its Puritanism And Nonconformity
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Author : Robert Halley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1869
Lancashire Its Puritanism And Nonconformity written by Robert Halley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1869 with Dissenters, Religious categories.
Gifteless Gifts
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Author : David Ker Thomson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Gifteless Gifts written by David Ker Thomson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Calvinism categories.