Devil's Riches

Jared Poley is Professor of History at Georgia State University. He is author of Decolonization in Germany: Weimar Narratives of Colonial Loss and Foreign Occupation (2005) and a co-editor of the collections Conversion and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Germany (Berghahn, 2012), Migrations in the German Lands, 1500-2000 (Berghahn, 2016), Kinship, Community, and Self (Berghahn, 2014), and Money in the German Speaking Lands (Berghahn, 2017).

• PrefaceIntroductionChapter 1. Greed and Avarice before AbsolutismChapter 2. The Confessionalization of an EmotionChapter 3. Greed and the Law in the Seventeenth CenturyChapter 4. Greed, Consumerism, and the StateChapter 5. Greed and the Oscillations between Liberalism and SocialismChapter 6. Greed and the New SpiritualismChapter 7. The Psychology and Psychoanalysis of GreedConclusions: Greed and HistoryIndex

"...a thought-provoking study of a subject that is too often taken for granted, rather than subjected to critical examination." Financial Times