The Puritan Gift

Author: Kenneth Hopper
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
ISBN: 9781850434191
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
Financial Times Top Ten Business Book of 2007! The Puritan Gift traces the origins and the characteristics of American managerial culture which, in the course of three centuries, would turn a group of small colonies into the greatest economic and political power on earth. It was the Protestant ethic whose characteristics--thrift, a respect for enquiry, individualism tempered by a need to cooperate, success as a measure of divine approval--helped to create the conditions which led to America's managerial and corporate success. Thus, the authors contend, the drive, energy and acceptance of innovation, competition, growth and social mobility, all have their origins in the discipline and ethos of America's first wave of European immigrants: the Puritans. And, the authors warn, as Americans distance themselves from core values which produced their nineteenth and twentieth century business and economic successes, they endanger the basis for their prosperity and security.

The Puritan Gift

Author: Kenneth Hopper
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857730185
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description
Where does the Protestant work ethic come from? And how did America achieve such dominance in management for so long? "The Puritan Gift" traces the origins and the characteristics of American managerial culture which, in the course of three centuries, turned a group of small colonies into the greatest economic and political power on earth. It argues that the drive, energy and acceptance of innovation, competition, growth and social mobility, all of which lie at the root of America's management culture, have their origins in the discipline and ethos of America's first wave of European immigrants: the Puritans.And, the authors warn, as Americans distance themselves from the core values which produced their business and economic successes during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, they put their future prosperity and security at risk. This is an original exploration of the dramatic and far-reaching consequences of the Puritans' 'gift' to America - the ethos which produced the early success of America and what came to be known as the American dream.

The Puritan Gift

Author: Kenneth Hopper
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857715976
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360

The Puritan Gift

Author: Kenneth Hopper
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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A Quest for Godliness

Author: James Innell Packer
Publisher: Crossway
ISBN: 9780891078197
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 372

Book Description
Surveys the teachings and beliefs of the Puritans, and calls today's Christians to follow their example of spiritual maturity.

The Puritan Gift

Author: Kenneth Hopper
Publisher:
ISBN: 9786000009434
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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The Valley of Vision

Author: Arthur Bennett
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780851518213
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Puritan Tradition in America, 1620-1730

Author: Alden T. Vaughan
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9780874518528
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388

Book Description
A classic documentary collection on New England's Puritan roots is once again available, with new material.

The Puritan Hope: Revival and the Interpretation of Prophecy

Author: Iain H. Murray
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781848714786
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages :

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Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia

Author: E. Digby Baltzell
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351495348
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 604

Book Description
Based on the biographies of some three hundred people in each city, this book shows how such distinguished Boston families as the Adamses, Cabots, Lowells, and Peabodys have produced many generations of men and women who have made major contributions to the intellectual, educational, and political life of their state and nation. At the same time, comparable Philadelphia families such as the Biddles, Cadwaladers, Ingersolls, and Drexels have contributed far fewer leaders to their state and nation. From the days of Benjamin Franklin and Stephen Girard down to the present, what leadership there has been in Philadelphia has largely been provided by self-made men, often, like Franklin, born outside Pennsylvania.Baltzell traces the differences in class authority and leadership in these two cites to the contrasting values of the Puritan founders of the Bay Colony and the Quaker founders of the City of Brotherly Love. While Puritans placed great value on the calling or devotion to one's chosen vocation, Quakers have always placed more emphasis on being a good person than on being a good judge or statesman. Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia presents a provocative view of two contrasting upper classes and also reflects the author's larger concern with the conflicting values of hierarchy and egalitarianism in American history.