Slavery, Freedom and Business Endeavor : The Reforging of Western Civilization and the Transformation of Everyday Life / by Bradley Bowden

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Bowden, Bradley [VerfasserIn]

Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Palgrave Debates in Business History | Springer eBook CollectionPublisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2022Publisher: Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022Description: 1 Online-Ressource (XXXVII, 369 Seiten) : IllustrationenISBN:

9783030972325

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Additional physical formats: 9783030972318 | 9783030972332 | 9783030972349 | Erscheint auch als: 9783030972318 Druck-Ausgabe | Erscheint auch als: 9783030972332 Druck-Ausgabe | Erscheint auch als: 9783030972349 Druck-AusgabeDOI: DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-97232-5Online resources:

Summary: Chapter 1: Introduction Civilization and Lived Experience -- Part 1: The Quests that Created a New Western Civilization (and Destroyed Others): Crops, Climate, Calories -- Chapter 2: The 3-Cs: Crops, Climate, Calories -- Chapter 3: Crops and the Shaping of Civilizations -- Chapter 4: Climate: The Destroyer of Civilizations, and How Early Modern Europe Rose from Catastrophe -- Chapter 5: The Eternal Challenge: Calorific Expenditure and the Emergence of an Industrialized Civilization -- Part 2: Freedom, Slavery and The Rise of an Industrialized Western Civilization -- Chapter 6: Time, Scale and Understandings of Western Civilization -- chapter 7: What is Freedom? What is Slavery? -- Chapter 8: Freedom, Democracy and Individualism: Cause of Business Success or Mere Correlation? -- Chapter 9: Slavery and its Legacies -- Part 3: Global Transformation: The Embrace and Rejection of an Industrialized Western Civilization -- chapter 10: Global Transformation -- chapter 11: A Globalized Civilization: Ascendancy, Contradictions and Interdependence -- Chapter 12: Choices and the Milletization of Western Society.Summary: ‘Bowden’s book provides a provocative prism through which to view western civilization and capitalism. It reveals Bowden’s understanding of the freedom and courage required to defend and sustain the values upon which the survival of modern society depends: individualism, democracy, economic and political liberalism. With the growing ascendency of social movements that prioritize group-based identities over individual achievement, his powerful warning about the “milletization” of society is more urgent than ever.’ --Art Bedeian. Louisiana State University and founding member of Management History Division, Academy of Management This book argues that the modern iteration of western civilization is profoundly different to earlier versions. Assuming definitive shape around 1850, the new civilization differed from every culture that came before it. Whereas earlier civilizations were caught within a “Malthusian” trap that subjected most to a life of misery, the new version of western civilization was associated with material plenty. Whereas slavery was previously endemic in both the Old and New Worlds, after 1850 the new civilization drove it to near extinction. Freedom and individualism were its hallmarks. The author postulates that it is lived experience that primarily defines a civilization. It is thus apparent that western civilization is now a global civilization. Every society has been shaped by it in terms of business, work and home life. Constantly, however, the individualist values at its core have come under threat. Increasingly, we witness what the book calls the “milletization” of society, whereby individuals obtain their identity from this or that “identity” group in ways akin to Ottoman Turkey’s “millet” system, in which each person was assigned to a particular “millet”. Across its pages, the book offers fundamentally new understandings of western civilization and how it was reforged by business endeavor. Bradley Bowden is Professor at Griffith University and Fellow at the Institute for Public Affairs. He is a Past Chair, Management History Division of the Academy of Management and Co-editor of the Journal of Management History. Past works include Work, Wealth, and Postmodernism and the edited, Palgrave Handbook of Management History.PPN: PPN: 180127682XPackage identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-2-BUM | ZDB-2-SEB | ZDB-2-SXBM

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