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Chapter 20 of The Bourgeois Revaluation:
Ethical Ideas and Their Rhetoric Mattered

June 21st, 2010

To say it in a little more detail: In Dante’s time a market was viewed as an occasion for sin. Holiness in 1300 was earned by prayers and charitable works, whereas buying low and selling high was deemed a great danger to the soul. As the holier-than-thou Albigensians in southern France put it a century (more…)

Chapter 21 of The Bourgeois Revaluation:
It Was a Rhetorical Change, Not a Deep Cultural One

June 27th, 2010

The Industrial Revolution and the modern world did not arise in the first instance from a quickening of the capitalist spirit or the Scientific Revolution or an original accumulation of capital or an exploitation of the periphery or imperialistic exploitation or a rise in the savings rate or a better enforcement of property rights or (more…)

The Bourgeois Revaluation:
Items to be considered for insertion:

July 5th, 2010

It needs some drama. Vol. 2 had it. It also needs pictures, to bring to life the frequent discussions of paintings, for example. Start collecting them. Chapters need to be about 1/3 shorter each (now 4400 average: cut in half after adding new material would do it) Lysias, “Against the Corn dealers,” q.v. Not all (more…)

(Very partial list of) Works Cited
The Bourgeois Revaluation (draft Jan 2010)

July 23rd, 2010

Child, Francis James. 1860. English and Scottish Ballads, Vol. VIII. Boston: Little, Brown. At http://books.google.com/books ?id=XgRbgUII054C&printsec=titlepage&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0 Cumberland, Richard. 1771. The West Indian. Pp.713-749 in Nettleton, Case, and Stone. Nettleton, George H., Arthur E. Case, George Winchester Stone, Jr., eds. 1939 (1969). British Dramatists from Dryden to Sheridan. 2nd e. 1969. Carbondale, IL: University of Southern (more…)


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