Peter Mathias (1928–2016)
Autor de The First Industrial Nation: The Economic History of Britain 1700-1914
Obras de Peter Mathias
The transformation of England : essays in the economic and social history of England in the eighteenth century (1979) 23 copias
The Cambridge Economic History of Europe, Volume 7, Part 2: The United States, Japan, and Russia (1978) 19 copias
The Cambridge Economic History of Europe, Volume 8: The Industrial Economies: The Development of Economic and Social… (1989) 19 copias
The Cambridge Economic History of Europe, Volume 7, Part 1: Britain, France, Germany, and Scandinavia (1978) 14 copias
The Cambridge Economic History of Europe, Volume 7 : Industrial Economies: Capital, Labour and Enterprise (1978) 6 copias
The Brewing Industry in England, 1700-1830 (Modern Revivals in Economic & Social History) (1993) 5 copias
International Trade and British Economic Growth: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day (Nature of… (1997) 2 copias
12: Il 19. secolo. 2. 1 copia
11: Il 19. secolo. 1. 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
The New Ways of History: Developments in Historiography (International Library of Historical Studies) (2010) — Contribuidor — 10 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1928-01-10
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2016-03-01
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Bath, Somerset, England, UK
- Educación
- Colston's School, Bristol
Cambridge University (Jesus College) - Ocupaciones
- Economic historian
Fellow, Queen's College, Cambridge University
Chichele Professor of Economic History, Oxford University
Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford University
Master, Downing College, Cambridge University - Premios y honores
- CBE
FBA
Miembros
Reseñas
También Puede Gustarte
Autores relacionados
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 22
- También por
- 3
- Miembros
- 276
- Popularidad
- #84,078
- Valoración
- 3.7
- Reseñas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 46
- Idiomas
- 3
Laments about the present state of the Christian church add weight to his expositions of the gospel. He describes several categories of false Christians. Like me, he is very concerned about us being distracted by the vanities and anxieties of this age. I never heard before that we should always "have heaven at heart." He also emphasized the fear of the Lord which I appreciated very much.
At one point in chapter two, my alarm bells started going off because he seemed to be contradicting the whole rest of the book by supporting prosperity gospel, because he said it is God's will for us to prosper in this life. But he saturated this idea with so many warnings about mammon, it's clear he is of the same mind as John Wesley, who famously advised us to "earn all you can, save all you can (thrift in spending, not storing treasures), and give all you can." The author was saying we should prosper in income and productivity, not in lifestyle or nest egg.… (más)