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Richard Henry Tawney



Tawney, Richard Henry (1880–1962), English historian and social theorist. His best-known book, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926), connects the hard work and individualism of the Protestants of North Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries with the growth of capitalism there.



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