Religion, Business and Wealth in Modern Britain

David J. Jeremy, Professor of Business History, The Manchester Metropolitan University.

• Introduction: debates about interactions between religion, business and wealth in modern Britain Part I The relationship between religion and political economy 1 Christianity, secularisation and political economy 2 From canon to cannon fire: religion and economics, 1730–1850 Part II Nonconformists and wealth 3 Methodism and wealth, 1740–1860 4 Late-Victorian and Edwardian Methodist businessmen and wealth 5 The Wiener thesis vindicated: the onslaught of 1994 upon the reputation of John Rylands of Manchester 6 Max Weber, religion and the work ethic Part III Quakers and wealth 7 The Society of Friends and business culture, 1700–1830 8 Changing Quaker attitudes to wealth, 1690–1950 Part IV Ethnicity, religion and wealth 9 Ethnicity and money making in nineteenth-century Britain 10 The Weber thesis, ethnic minorities and British entrepreneurship 11 Ethnicity, religion and wealth: a commentary on the uses of Max Weber

'this is an interesting collection of essays on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Britain.' - Crucible'...it is a good account of an era too easily ignored in the secular economic climate in which we live...' - Crucible