A collection of essays by leading historians of early modern Europe and the U.S., this book explores how merchants, entrepreneurs, and other early modern capitalists viewed themselves. INDICE: Theological Roots of the Medieval/Modern Merchants' Self-Representation; G.Todeschini PART I: SELF-IMAGES Images and Self-Images of Sephardic Merchants in Early Modern Europe and the Mediterranean; F.Trivellato Merchants in Charge - The Self-Perception of Amsterdam Merchants, ca. 1550-1700; C.LesgerMerchants on the Defensive: National Self-Images in the Dutch Republic of theLate Eighteenth Century; D.Sturkenboom PART II: CAPITALISM AS NORMATIVE 'Merchants' and 'Gentlemen' in Eighteenth-Century Sweden: Worlds of Jean Abraham Grill; L.Müller Professional Ethics and Commercial Rationality at the Beginning of the Modern Era; J.Hoock The Anxious Merchant, the Bold Speculator, and the Malicious Bankrupt: Doing Business in Eighteenth-Century Hamburg; M.Lindemann Accounting for War and Revolution: Philadelphia Merchants and Commercial Risk,1774-1811 PART III: INDIVIDUALS AND STRIVING Accounting for Science: How a Merchant Kept His Books in Elizabethan London; D.Harkness Coming of Age in Trade: Masculinity and Commerce in Eighteenth-Century England; J.Smail Success and Self-Loathing in the Life of an Eighteenth-Century Entrepreneur; M.Kadane
- ISBN: 978-0-230-61781-0
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 290
- Fecha Publicación: 15/11/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés