Slavery, freedom and business endeavor : the reforging of western civilization and the transformation of everyday-life / Bradley Bowden.
Bowden, Bradley.
2022
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Title Slavery, freedom and business endeavor : the reforging of western civilization and the transformation of everyday-life / Bradley Bowden.
Author Bowden, Bradley.
ISBN 9783030972325 (electronic bk.)
3030972321 (electronic bk.)
3030972313
9783030972318
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97232-5
Imprint Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-97232-5 doi
Call Number HM548
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.3
Summary 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 Turkeys 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.
Note Includes index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 16, 2022).
Series Palgrave debates in business history.
Available in Other Form Print version: 9783030972318
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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.

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