Peter Mathias (1928–2016)
Författare till The First Industrial Nation: The Economic History of Britain 1700-1914
Verk av Peter Mathias
The transformation of England : essays in the economic and social history of England in the eighteenth century (1979) 23 exemplar
The Cambridge Economic History of Europe, Volume 7, Part 2: The United States, Japan, and Russia (1978) 19 exemplar
The Cambridge Economic History of Europe, Volume 8: The Industrial Economies: The Development of Economic and Social… (1989) 19 exemplar
The Cambridge Economic History of Europe, Volume 7, Part 1: Britain, France, Germany, and Scandinavia (1978) 14 exemplar
The Cambridge Economic History of Europe, Volume 7 : Industrial Economies: Capital, Labour and Enterprise (1978) 6 exemplar
The Brewing Industry in England, 1700-1830 (Modern Revivals in Economic & Social History) (1993) 5 exemplar
International Trade and British Economic Growth: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day (Nature of… (1997) 2 exemplar
Innovation and technology in Europe : from the eighteenth century to the present day (1991) 1 exemplar
12: Il 19. secolo. 2. 1 exemplar
11: Il 19. secolo. 1. 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
The New Ways of History: Developments in Historiography (International Library of Historical Studies) (2010) — Bidragsgivare — 10 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Födelsedag
- 1928-01-10
- Avled
- 2016-03-01
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Födelseort
- Bath, Somerset, England, UK
- Utbildning
- Colston's School, Bristol
Cambridge University (Jesus College) - Yrken
- 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 - Priser och utmärkelser
- CBE
FBA
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Statistik
- Verk
- 22
- Även av
- 3
- Medlemmar
- 276
- Popularitet
- #84,078
- Betyg
- 3.7
- Recensioner
- 3
- ISBN
- 46
- Språk
- 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.… (mer)