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To: Pelham

Some of Western Europe, certainly not most of it.
In fact the bulk of the economic bases of the European ascendancy post 1600 were not Calvinist.
Check your industrial history.
And British North America was only minority Presbyterian.


180 posted on 02/27/2014 9:30:20 AM PST by buwaya
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To: buwaya

“And British North America was only minority Presbyterian.”

You need to read David Hackett Fischer’s ‘Albion’s Seed’ and get an education. The Scotch Irish were Presbyterians and were a very large portion of the original American populace.

Migration

From 1710 to 1775, over 200,000 people emigrated from Ulster to the original thirteen American colonies. The largest numbers went to Pennsylvania. From that base some went south into Virginia, the Carolinas and across the South, with a large concentration in the Appalachian region; others headed west to western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and the Midwest.[22]

Transatlantic flows were halted by the American Revolution, but resumed after 1783, with total of 100,000 arriving in America between 1783 and 1812. By that point few were young servants and more were mature craftsmen and they settled in industrial centers, including Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and New York, where many became skilled workers, foremen and entrepreneurs as the Industrial Revolution took off in the U.S.[citation needed] Another half million came to America 1815 to 1845; another 900,000 came in 1851-99.[citation needed] From 1900 to 1930 the average was about 5,000 to 10,000 a year.[citation needed] Relatively few came after 1930.[citation needed] At every stage a majority were Presbyterians,[original research?][dubious – discuss] and that religion decisively shaped Scotch-Irish culture.[23]

According to the Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups, there were 400,000 U.S. residents of Irish birth or ancestry in 1790 and half of this group was descended from Ulster, and half from the other three provinces of Ireland.[24]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch-Irish_American


231 posted on 02/27/2014 10:18:19 PM PST by Pelham (If you do not deport it is amnesty by default.)
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To: buwaya

“In fact the bulk of the economic bases of the European ascendancy post 1600 were not Calvinist.
Check your industrial history.”

‘The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism’ is a book written by Max Weber, a German sociologist, economist, and politician. Begun as a series of essays, the original German text was composed in 1904 and 1905, and was translated into English for the first time by Talcott Parsons in 1930.[1] It is considered a founding text in economic sociology and sociology in general.

In the book, Weber wrote that capitalism in Northern Europe evolved when the Protestant (particularly Calvinist) ethic influenced large numbers of people to engage in work in the secular world, developing their own enterprises and engaging in trade and the accumulation of wealth for investment. In other words, the Protestant work ethic was an important force behind the unplanned and uncoordinated mass action that influenced the development of capitalism. This idea is also known as the “Protestant Ethic thesis.”[2]

In 1998 the International Sociological Association listed this work as the fourth most important sociological book of the 20th century.[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protestant_Ethic_and_the_Spirit_of_Capitalism


232 posted on 02/27/2014 10:42:30 PM PST by Pelham (If you do not deport it is amnesty by default.)
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