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1 online resource (300 pages) |
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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Dedication -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Mapping the "Better Angels" of Capitalism: Space, Place, and Story in the Moral Economy of Wealth -- Rhetoric, Narrative, and the "Better Angels" of Capitalism -- Emplacement and Emplotment in the Moral Economy of Wealth -- 2 Story Spaces of Identity: Wealth, Power, and Narrativity in the Everyday -- It's Obvious": The Banal Truth of Wealth as Power in the Everyday -- Story, Space, and Moral Identity -- Story Spaces of the Ethical Subject of Sovereign Individuality -- 3 The Mastering of Fortune: Machiavelli, Masculinity, and the Subject of Virtù -- The Machiavellian Uncanny: Shadows of Fortune and Virtue in a History of the Present -- Taming the Goddess: Fate, Fortune, and the Renaissance Social Imaginary -- Founders and Citizens: Machiavelli and the Narrative of Fortune and Virtue -- 4 How Much Is Enough? Counting and Accounting for Money in the Market as Moral Space -- Money, Property, and Identity: Tracking the Subject of Sovereign Individuality from Florence to Edinburgh -- Conjuring Homo Mercator: Money, Virtue, and Commercial Society -- A Visitation with the "Better Angels" of the Market: Money, Liquidity, and Desire -- 5 Stewards, Citizens, and Entrepreneurs: Discourses of Philanthropy as Manly Vocation -- Benevolence, Beneficence, and Beyond: Crossing the Atlantic to the Topos of Philanthropy -- The Grace of Wealth and the Duty of Fortune: Brahmin Boston and the Philanthropic Vocation of the Steward-Citizen -- An Empire of Beneficence: Andrew Carnegie and the Philanthropic Vocation of the Steward-Entrepreneur -- 6 The "Better Angels" in the End -- References -- Index |
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Upper class men -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States
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Wealth -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States
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Rich people -- United States -- Language
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Philanthropists -- United States -- Language
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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Philanthropists -- Language
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Rich people -- Language
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Wealth -- Moral and ethical aspects
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United States
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000242973 |
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1000242978 |
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9780429309076 |
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0429309074 |
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9781000314854 |
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1000314855 |
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9781000278910 |
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1000278913 |
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