People worked hard long before there was a thing called the “work ethic,” much less a “Protestant work ethic.” The phrase itself emerged early in the twentieth century and has since congealed into a ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The papers of New York painter and sculptor Max Weber measure 11.6 linear feet and date from 1902-2008. The collection documents Weber's career as ...

I n the summer of 1917, a group of university students in Munich invited Max Weber to launch a lecture series on “intellectual work as a vocation” with a talk about the scholar’s work. He was, in a ...

At the end of 1908, after a three-year stint living and painting in Paris, the artist Max Weber (1881–1960) returned to a New York that had scarcely heard of Henri Rousseau or Paul Cézanne, much less ...

IN JANUARY 1919 Munich was in turmoil. Revolution in November of the previous year had swept away the King of Bavaria, installing a ramshackle regime headed by a messianic journalist of the radical ...