Protestantism and the rationalization of English law: A variation on a theme by Weber

Law and Society Review

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 365-391

  Likhovski, Assaf ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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DOI: 10.2307/3115168     Document Type: Article

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