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This book examines the complex interrelationship between charity, confession, and capital in the orphanages of the Free Imperial City of Augsburg. To provide the best care at the least cost the administrators of these traditionally non-capitalistic organizations engaged in a wide variety of capitalistic practices in capital, commodity, and labor markets. Their market-orientated practices inspired bourgeois virtues that included the assessments of long-term risk and reward, the avoidance of exces
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- Author
- Safley, Thomas Max
- Publisher
- Brill Academic Publishers; Brill Academic Pub
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780391039834
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Social Science, Political Science, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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