Word: tawney
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...TAWNEY...
...charge that they destroyed Rome. The great city was ravaged, he writes, not by the barbarians in A.D. 410, but through imperial plundering in the 6th and 7th centuries by Byzantine Emperors Justinian and Constans II. Johnson also challenges the once popular thesis-of Max Weber and R.H. Tawney among others-that Calvinism helped nurture capitalism. In staunchly Calvinistic Scotland, Johnson notes, capitalism was long stifled. What did launch capitalism, he argues, was the decline of churchly power-whether in Calvinistic or Catholic states...
Harvey C. Mansfield '53, chairman of the Government Department, said yesterday the department was very impressed with Terrill's talents and achievements, especially the Tawney book...
...reasons seem to go far deeper. As a Ph.D student in political theory at Harvard, Terrill wrote a theses on English social theorist R.H. Tawney, but he has since transferred his interests to China...
Mansfield said he does not think the journalistic or popular appeal of the books was a negative factor in the department's decision, explaining that Terrill has done scholarly work, such as the Tawney book, in addition to his journalistic work...