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Charity and Economy in the Orphanages of Early Modern Augsburg

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This book examines the complex interrelationship between charity, confession, and capital in the orphanages of Augsburg, one of early modern Europe's great manufacturing and mercantile centers. The product of monumental, original research, if offers a thorough-going revision of current historical scholarship on poor relief, social discipline, organization building, and emergent capitalism.

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Charity and Economy in the Orphanages of Early Modern Augsburg 1997, Brill

ISBN-13: 9780391039834

Hardcover